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Yuichi Hirako’s Tree, Forest, Mountain (2025) is featured in the Unlimited section at Art Basel 2026.
Tree, Forest, Mountain by Yuichi Hirako is a sculptural installation of 304 hybrid figures – human bodies crowned with fir or pine tree heads – densely clustered on a circular platform as though a fragment of forest has broken free. Shown at the Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art in fall 2025, the work was acclaimed for reinterpreting the forest as a site of nature, mythology, collectivity, and anonymity through Japanese popular iconography.
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“How we interact with nature and how we think about it is very different from a hundred years ago.
It will be different a hundred years from now and that’s natural, so I make work considering the changes that will come.”- Yuichi Hirako
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Yuichi Hirako
Tree, Forest, Mountain, 2025
acrylic on wood
210 x 510 x 415 cm
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Towering over the human body, the densely massed volume has an imposing presence – as though nature itself is the observer, quietly inverting the logic by which it has long been rendered passive and consumable. Hirako transforms coexistence from moral proposition into spatial fact, exposing both its possibility and imbalance.
Yuichi Hirako (born 1982 in Okayama, Japan) is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations populate surreal, ecologically charged landscapes with hybrid figures that serve as self-portrait and collective mirror, questioning anthropocentric views of the world. Hirako lives and works in Tokyo.
