Shelf under the Mountain (detail)
by Naoya Hirata
- Date:
- 2021
- Medium:
- Lambda print, digital photographic paper, photo acrylic
- Dimensions:
- 103 × 145.6 cm
- Image courtesy of
- PATinKyoto Print Art Triennale 2025
by Naoya Hirata
"Shelf under the Mountain (detail)" is a Lambda print — a digital photographic image laser-exposed onto chromogenic paper and face-mounted under acrylic — that depicts a shelf structure positioned beneath a mountain form. The "detail" designation marks this as a fragmentary view excerpted from a larger composition, drawing attention to the photograph's status as a croppable, reproducible surface. The face-mounted acrylic finish produces a glossy, depth-saturated plane that heightens the legibility of edges while flattening pictorial space. The juxtaposition of shelf — a domestic, modular, human-scaled object — against mountain compresses two registers of spatial experience into a single planar image. The work belongs to Hirata's broader investigation of expanded printmaking, in which the print is no longer a relief or intaglio matrix but a digital file routed through varied output substrates: Lambda paper, PLA filament, lenticular sheets, inkjet on tarpaulin. Trained as a sculptor at Musashino Art University, Hirata treats the photographic print as a sculpturally inflected object whose materiality resides in mounting and surface as much as in image content.
Shelf under the Mountain (detail) was created by Naoya Hirata (平田 尚也) in 2021.
Shelf under the Mountain (detail) depicts mountains.
Shelf under the Mountain (detail) measures 103 × 145.6 cm.
