Haruka Fujita (JP, 1970)

Haruka Fujita was born in Tokyo, Japan. Since childhood, she has been fascinated by the wonder of light, which became the inspiration for her creative life thanks to her brother, who became an astronomer and who revealed to her two great realities: "the light of the stars in the darkness dates back a long time ago” and "the stars during the day are obscured by the sun even if they are there”. Fujita combines art and science through optical theory: focusing on invisible things or careless phenomena in everyday life, she rethinks the world through unexpected materials such as sewing needles, soap bubbles and mirrors. She graduated from both Tokyo Zokei University and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan; as a result, she became fascinated by the commonalities that exist between East and West despite the cultural differences. She received the prestigious TIFA photography award for science in 2022, she took part in the Venice Biennale (Italian Pavilion/Academy) in 2011 and she had a solo exhibition at Palazzo Crivelli during the Fuori Salone in Milan in 2007; her sculptures Rainbow and Cosmos are permanently installed in Tokyo.