YAMAN NKYMN is a contemporary artist based in Kyoto, Japan and Los Angeles, USA. He studied chemistry at Kobe University, and began his career as a marketing strategist, working globally for leading fashion houses^[1] such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Gucci. He also worked on the animation movie “Shin Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time” as the strategic director. ^[2]

In 2012 his work evolved, focusing on adapting fast-changing social behaviours into the creation of original content^[1] – entertaining, interactive, gamified, using algorithms to observe a communicative world and data collection, accelerating the process.

Following the principles of chemistry, YAMAN’s practice is a recodification characterized by a juxtaposed observation of the laws at play in both matter and society – invisible states, relationships, interactions, conditions before reaction and under equilibrium.

From this dual, coupled perspective, YAMAN notices imbalanced states in society and turns his focus to the source of distorted definition, information transmission which defines the minority or ‘other’.^[2]