07.06. — 30.08.2018
Shingo Yoshida - HIDDEN PLACES
Shingo Yoshida - HIDDEN PLACES
(as a satellite show in the context of the 7th Triennial of Photography Hamburg)
EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL 30.08.2018
(Closing at 18:00, parallel to the season opening of the galleries in the Kontorhausviertel and on the Alster).
As a contribution to this year's Phototriennale in Hamburg, Mikiko Sato Gallery is proudly showing the exhibition HIDDEN PLACES with works by the Japanese artist Shingo Yoshida (born 1974). Photographs, drawings, postcard works and the new artist video "The cuckoo's nest" provide an insight into his "global" work.
For Yoshida, travelling, seeking out the most diverse, often extreme regions of the world is both programme and material for his art. The artist travels to ice deserts, jungles, stays close to the time zone, meets hermits, little-known legends and myths or simply gets "lost" as a bird paradise in the middle of civilisation. Such journeys are often unprepared, without prior information about the respective country, and are guided entirely by the intention to surrender to the situation and to the moment.
Previous journeys have taken the artist to Brazil, Chile, Iceland, Russia and numerous European countries. The purpose of these endeavours is not for ann artist to report from faraway places, but conversely to expose himself to them and allows himself to be emotionally touched by them. This is what drives Yoshida to these undertakings. In the process, he discovers himself, the hidden and concealed desires and fears of his own culture, when he exposes himself to nature or inhospitable regions, for example, he unearths what is "hiding" in them. Thus he engages in a double game of hide-and-seek, motivated by the search for the being of things as well as the beings inside and outside of us.... show less
(as a satellite show in the context of the 7th Triennial of Photography Hamburg)
EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL 30.08.2018
(Closing at 18:00, parallel to the season opening of the galleries in the Kontorhausviertel and on the Alster).
As a contribution to this year's Phototriennale in Hamburg, Mikiko Sato Gallery is proudly showing the exhibition HIDDEN PLACES with works by the Japanese artist Shingo Yoshida (born 1974). Photographs, drawings, postcard works and the new artist video "The cuckoo's nest" provide an insight into his "global" work.
For Yoshida, travelling, seeking out the most diverse, often extreme regions of the world is both programme and material for his art. The artist travels to ice deserts, jungles, stays close to the time zone, meets hermits, little-known legends and myths or simply gets "lost" as a bird paradise in the middle of civilisation. Such journeys are often unprepared, without prior information about the respective country, and are guided entirely by the intention to surrender to the situation and to the moment.
Previous journeys have taken the artist to Brazil, Chile, Iceland, Russia and numerous European countries. The purpose of these endeavours is not for ann artist to report from faraway places, but conversely to expose himself to them and allows himself to be emotionally touched by them. This is what drives Yoshida to these undertakings. In the process, he discovers himself, the hidden and concealed desires and fears of his own culture, when he exposes himself to nature or inhospitable regions, for example, he unearths what is "hiding" in them. Thus he engages in a double game of hide-and-seek, motivated by the search for the being of things as well as the beings inside and outside of us.... show less
