Artist: Tokihiro Satō
Size: 218 x 182 cm
Technique: Photography
Sato completed the Graduate School of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1983. Via three-dimensional works giving form to invisible factors such as light, air, and time, he shifted to photographs capturing the artificial light of a penlight or the sunlight reflected on a hand mirror. In addition to printing, he has developed techniques such as backlight film and camera obscura and produced works questioning the relationship between the history of a place and the artist. These are the traces of a penlight Sato held in his hand and moved slowly up and down as if drawing lines in midair in a pitch-dark basement pump room taken with a camera. Long and short white lines join and overlap while swaying strongly and weakly as if breathing in time to the movement of the body. The artist is not looking into the finder but sending light to the camera. Due to the long exposure, his posture does not remain in the picture. However, this work captures his existence in a certain place at a certain time on a real-time basis and can undoubtedly be regarded proof of his existence. The series done in this method was presented for the first time in 1988 and Sato won one after another prize for this work such as The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama Prize at The 18th The International Art Exhibition, Japan (1990).
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