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Toshiki Yagisawa

Toshiki Yagisawa is an artist born in Fukushima, Japan, in 1983.

He creates sculptures and objects using a wide range of materials and processes, including wood carving, ceramics, 3D printing, and the repurposing of found objects.

His practice is guided by the idea of Fictional Vernacular Art: imagining objects that seem to have emerged naturally from a place and culture that never existed, and to have been used there for generations. In these works, nostalgia for an unrealized past coexists with a sense of familiarity toward an unseen future.

In his wood sculptures, everyday subjects such as dogs and plants are transformed through carving that leaves the grain, knots, cracks, and marks of the process visible. In other works, he reconfigures the functions and contexts of existing objects, questioning the relationship between use and meaning.

Through these works, Yagisawa explores the boundaries between past and future, craft and industrial production, and everyday objects and sculpture.

Selected Collaborations / Projects

Bang & Olufsen (DK), M/M (Paris) (FR), JW Anderson (UK), DIS (US), ZEITGUISED (DE), NEW TENDENCY (DE), Spike Art Magazine (AT/DE), Same Paper (CN), Kwangho Lee (KR), WEKINO (KR)

Selected Press / Publications

Bang & Olufsen Sound & Design (JP / 2026)

ELLE DECOR (JP / 2025)

HANATSUBAKI (JP / 2025)

IDEAT No.169 (FR / 2025)

Intramuros No.220 (FR / 2024)

TOKION (JP / 2023)

The Fashion Post (JP / 2023)

Spike Art Magazine (AT/DE / 2021)

Casa BRUTUS No.260 (JP / 2021)

美術手帖 / Bijutsu Techo (JP / 2019)

Domus (IT / 2018)