EXHIBITIONS
TOKIHIRO SATO
Tokihiro Sato’s photographic practice investigates themes of light, time, space, and the human body through techniques such as the pinhole camera, camera obscura, and long-exposure photography. This exhibition features the “City Scape” works from Sato’s major series Photo-Respiration, which focuses on architectural structures and urban spaces. To make these works Sato moves around with a penlight before a camera set up in the darkness and uses long exposure to capture the light trails of his movements on film. Sato states that “within architectural structures, there are spaces that appear to me as if they are air pockets.” His method of creating light forms through the movement of his own body within these spaces reflects his background studying sculpture. The resulting photographs give visible form to an abstract sense of time, as though it were permeating the space.
POETIC SCAPE
- E-4
- Nakameguro
Poetic Scape opened in Nakameguro in 2011 as a gallery specializing in photography. In recent years, its program has expanded to include works in other mediums. Combining the words “poetic” and “landscape,” the gallery name reflects the ambition to show visitors a new landscape that cannot be clearly defined by language but that artists have the ability to see. Affiliated artists include Daido Moriyama, Hiroshi Nomura, Sakiko Nomura, Tracy Templeton, Toshiya Watanabe, and Toshio Shibata. In addition to its exhibition space, Poetic Scape runs a small shop that sells artist books and texts on photographic theory.
