Masaru Iwai (b. 1975, Kyoto) currently lives and works in Tokyo. Utilizing video, performance, and installation, Iwai focuses on the mundanity of cleaning and cleansing to reveal their underlying social and symbolic meanings. Selected exhibitions include Seeing as Though Touching Contemporary Japanese Photography Vol. 19 (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2022), Open Studio Program 83 How to clean up the museum (Fuchu Art Museum, 2022), Yokohama Triennale 2020, Control Diaries (Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, 2020), New “Artists Today” Exhibition Unfixed Perspectives (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 2018), and Reborn Art Festival 2017.