Current Residents Haruka Saito
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"Haruka Saito, The Shadow Shapes are Mountains(video Installation view),2025,Photo by Haruka Akagi"
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"Haruka Saito, Space《Zooom!》（Installation view of The Shadow Shapes are Mountains）, 2025, Photo by Haruka Akagi,
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Haruka Saito, Tulips not in bloom exist as bulbs, lying down as they sleep and standing upright to appear to the eye, able to repeat this cycle for decades, 2025
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Haruka Saito, Space《Finger-spelled “me” / the eye on the star side》,2022
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Haruka Saito,A closed book An opened Dumpling It feels so storange that yesterday's left over dumpling wrappers and today's leftover filling can never meet(detail), 2025
Haruka Saito (born 1988, lives and works in Japan) creates works based on the idea that “time does not exist.” For Saito, time is not something that flows in a single direction, but rather a conceptual designation given to the totality of gravity and the kinetic energy of matter. Through a cross-disciplinary practice spanning painting, ceramics, video, and installation, Saito seeks to connect events to a multidimensional structure of space-time, transforming our very perception of “time.”
Saito graduated from the Oil Painting Department at Tama Art University and has presented numerous solo and group exhibitions.
At HIAP, I will develop a practice materializing the relationship between light, perception, and temporal experience. Treating life and art as inseparable, I position residency with my four-year-old child as an “open dedication,” where childcare and play form a creative rhythm deepening my attention to light, materials, language, and temporality. In Helsinki’s shifting light, I use daily life as an observational device, recording perceptual changes through diaries, drawings and sculptural works. I also reinterpret himmeli—structured by gravity—as a tool to visualize multidimensional space-time. By incorporating local shadows into installations, I seek a new dimension of time.