2011年3月11日に発生した東日本大震災と東京電力福島第一原子力発電所事故によって、故郷である福島の状況が一変したことをきっかけに作品制作を開始。時代や社会状況に翻弄され忘れ去られた過去の記憶や場所、現代社会で見えにくくなっている問題や事象を調査し、映像やインスタレーションを制作している。ある事象に対し、現地に赴いて当事者の声を聞き集め、そこに作家自身が介入することによって成り立つ作品は、何が起こるか予測不能な現代において、ふとした瞬間に誰もが当事者たり得る可能性を観客に投げかける。過去と向き合い、何が残されているか、あるいは残されていないかを検証することで、歴史からこぼれ落ちる人々の記憶や感情、そして、今後埋もれていってしまうかもしれない現実へも光を当てる。

Born in 1984 in Fukushima, Japan. Currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

Dokuyama Bontaro started his artistic practice after witnessing the utter change to his hometown of Fukushima brought about by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, and the meltdown of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear Power Plant. He creates videos and installations that investigating forgotten memories of people who have been at the mercy of the times and social conditions, the past, places, issues and phenomena that have become hard to see in contemporary society. His works involves the intervention of the artist himself by going to the location of a given incident to collect interviews with the people affected; he warns viewers of the possibility that, in our unpredictable modern world, anyone could become a victim at any time. By facing the past and investigating what has been left behind, as well as what has disappeared, Dokuyama reveals the memories and emotions of people who have fallen through the cracks of history, and the reality that fragments of ourselves may be buried in the future.

2020　「Sustainable Sculpture」　　駒込倉庫｜駒込 / 東京 　企画/キュレーション：LEESAYA