NOZOMI HASEGAWA
Nozomi Hasegata was born in 1987 in Niigata, Japan. She first completed her Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and then a Master's degree in Economics at the University of Tokyo.
A scholarship abroad took her to Germany where she studied fine arts at the Braunschweig University of Art and graduated as a master student of Professor Wolfgang Ellenrieder.
Nozomi Hasegawa lives and works as a freelance artist in Braunschweig, Germany.
She has taken part in residencies and symposia, has been selected for funding programmes and scholarships and has already been awarded prizes.
Since 2018 solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Japan and South Korea.
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In her work, Nozomi Hasegawa explores the indifference people often show toward everyday objects that exist on the margins of modern urban life. Pushed to the periphery, these objects receive little attention, leading to vague and incomplete perception of their presence and significance.
We often perceive objects at the edge of our field of vision only fleetingly and incompletely. Our brain fills in these visual gaps using memory, imagination, and stereotypes, constructing a subjective reality. Her work captures these fragmented impressions and can be understood as a simulation of visual perception processes.
Nozomi Hasegawa believes, that the incompleteness of our perception of objects on the periphery of our vision also applies to social relationships and how we perceive people on the margins of society.
Her artistic practice primarily focuses on painting. She often use smartphone photos and 3D scans of flowers and landscapes as sources of inspiration and starting materials. By utilising this blurriness and incompleteness of such images and translating them into oil paintings, she makes visual impressions from the human subconscious visible on the canvas.