Daisuke ENOMOTO

Works

Thought Ruins #1

2025

30 x 30 x 30(cm)

Recycled paper, coffee grounds



Thought Ruins #4

2025

30 x 30 x 30(cm)

Recycled paper, coffee grounds

The central "form" in his work is the "Layers of Thought" — scrap paper memos, doodles, and drawings accumulated since childhood, stacked like geological strata of recycled paper.
These are records on paper of the various emotions, thoughts, and problems that arise in daily life — preserved so as not to be forgotten or discarded — representing lived time itself.
Intending to recycle all of this accumulated paper, he dissolves it with rainwater and a blender into a fibrous liquid, then slowly pours it into molds over time and allows it to dry.
Coffee grounds are sometimes mixed in to increase the material's structural strength.

The resulting works are sometimes presented as installation pieces in galleries and museums; other times placed outdoors to merge with natural surroundings, where many viewers perceive them as rubble or refuse. Since they are made of paper, they have also been freely handled by children as building blocks or toys at experiential events held at nursery schools.
When creators and designers wish to use the material for product applications, he also engages in acts of measuring value — such as selling it by weight.

"Thought Ruins" reconceives fragments of the paper layers — broken apart through children's free and absorbed play — as "materializations of the present moment." Reshaped as thought fossils that seal in time, they are then combined and developed into new forms.

Biography

2017  Graduated from Kyoto University of Arts, Faculty of Arts, Department of Information Design, Illustration Course

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Exhibitions

2024
"一角 / Ikaku" interart7 GALLERY TK2 / Higashi-Nihombashi, Tokyo
"Center Line Art Festival Tokyo 2024" MUSAKO ART GATE / Musashikoganei, Tokyo
"Excavation of Thought" Tasukake / Chiba

2023
"Center Line Art Festival Tokyo 2023" Space Sharing Program
KOGANEI ART SPOT Château 2F / Musashikoganei, Tokyo


2022
"Bunkamura Craft Collection 2022" Bunkamura Gallery / Shibuya, Tokyo
"art potluck ART FAIR" Studio D21 / Yotsuya, Tokyo
"DRIVE UP!" WHAT CAFE × WATOWA GALLERY EXHIBITION / Shinagawa, Tokyo
"YOLO SOLO" 3331 Arts Chiyoda / Kanda, Tokyo (planned participation)
"KAIKA TOKYO AWARD 2022" KAIKA Tokyo by SHARE HOTELS / Asakusa, Tokyo
"BrainBrunn ART AWARD 2022" BrainBrunnGALLERY / Hachioji, Tokyo


2022.3–2024.3
"Accumulation of Thought" Permanent Exhibition, 2F Elevator Hall
"THE SELECTED vol.1 / vol.2" elephant studio / Shibuya, Tokyo

2021
"The 77th Gentenkai Exhibition" National Art Center, Tokyo
"Ikebukuro Art Gathering IAG AWARDS 2021 EXHIBITION" Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre 5F, Gallery 1 / Tokyo
"The 17th World Painting Grand Prize Exhibition" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Tokyo

Awards

2022
KAIKA TOKYO AWARD 2022 — "Accumulation of Thought"

2021
The 30th Kamiwaza Grand Prize Exhibition — "Indicative Fossil S-4" Grand Prize
Ikebukuro Art Gathering IAG AWARDS 2021 EXHIBITION — "Mission"

Statement

The construction of thought — formed by "body" and "mind" — and the traces of time are translated into "form," brought to various places, and unfolded in space as installations or as part of process art.

Rather than intentional creation using conventional art materials, by working with what naturally "emerges" in daily life, the work transcends into a narrative with a background that cannot be summed up in a single word.

Through art, viewers encounter the essence of expressive acts — traversing domains, evoking new creation, and confronting the meaning of their own existence.

Through these ongoing activities, the work attempts to give concrete form to concepts and explores the truths of living in contemporary society.