Year: 30. April 2010 (Print 2020)
Technique: Lambda C-Print
Size: 40 × 30 cm
Signature: Yes, on label
Edition 300
Numbered: Yes
Category: Photography
Framed: No
About the artist:
Shingo YOSHIDA is at home all over the world. From Japan to Slovenia, from Berlin to Iceland, from Kuala Lumpur to São Paulo, he is constantly drawn around the globe. He often goes to nature, to untouched areas or to landscapes inhabited by traditional cultures, to get the possibility of catching a glimpse of the actual life of the people with their natural environment. With film and photo camera, he traces legends, myths and hidden places, meets people for whose cultures, ideas and visions he is enthusiastic. The search for the self is of particular importance.
This Photo-Collage-Edition belongs to the project:
"SOS Morse Code", TV-Tower, Berlin
Shingo Yoshida’s video "SOS Morse code – TV-Tower" engages the subject of communication codes with an absurd stunt at Berlin’s iconic TV Tower, a “futuristic” reminder of East German optimism and an inescapable symbol of the unified city. Just before closing and from inside the dark, empty lounge located in the giant sphere suspended high above the city, Yoshida employed an existing table lamp to flash out a forlorn SOS. The video documentation of this performance attains a melancholic, even existential grandeur at once personal and universal by presenting both a dramatic intent and a negligible effect.
https://www.shingoyoshida.com/sos-morse-code-fernsehturm 
