Koji Enokura

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Koji Enokura (1942-1995) was born in Tokyo, and received his master’s degree from the Oil Painting Department of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1968. Enokura was fundamentally interested in the real responses and interventions that occur when the physical human body and materials confront each other in space. He aimed to use his own body as a medium to problematize the reciprocal relation between things and the space exterior to them. The late 1960s was a time, globally, of rapid economic and political changes and radical doubt regarding existent value systems. Movements and groups such as Arte Povera, Support/Surface, Anti-Form, and in Japan, Mono-ha, had presented major shifts in postwar art. Enokura is considered a member of the Mono-ha and shares concepts with other Mono-ha artists who began working in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His practice however, which was carried out in a multiple media including installation, painting, and photography, exceeds the context of Mono-ha and continues to receive increasing global attention today.

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