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MATTER / BURN OUT

Daisuke YOKOTA

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Daisuke Yokota has presented to the public an immense installation using 100,000 photographic prints coated in wax, which was exhibited in Aichi Triennial held in August 2016. Yokota’s work ‘Matter’, a work whereby photographs have been printed on rolls of paper, has become a sensation. Since 2013, ‘Matter’ has been included in numerous international exhibitions, including Unseen Photo Fair Special Exhibition ‘anima on photo’ (Amsterdam, 2013); Photo London (London, 2015); JIMEI x ARLES International Photography Festival (Xiamen, China). ‘MATTER / BURN OUT’ is an extension of the work ‘Matter’ which was exhibited in Xiamen in 2015, 70 years after the war between Japan and China. Once the exhibition had come to a close, the work was burnt in the, once again, vacant space in the area. This ‘burn out’ process was documented in 4,000 photographs, whereby the data was processed, manipulated and revived to form a brand new, large scale work called “MATTER / BURN OUT”, and edited to this new book.

from the publisher's statement-

Book Size: 210 × 284 mm
Pages: 304 pages
Publication Date: 2016
Printing: softcover
Publisher: artbeat Publishers

Born in 1983, Saitama, Yokota majored in Photography at Nippon Photography Institute in Tokyo. He has been the recipient of a number of awards including the Excellence Award at Canon New Cosmos of Photography awarded in 2008, the Epson Color Imaging Contest Award awarded in 2008, and the Grand Prize at 1 WALL　Exhibition awarded in 2010. His work has been featured in several international art fairs including Paris Photo, Paris, and Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam. As the winner of the first Outset I Unseen Exhibition Fund at Unseen Photo Fair 2013, he presented a solo exhibition at Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, in May 2014 with a series of his work that has been added to the museum’ s collection. In the same year, his photography book VERTIGO was nominated for the Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. In 2015, he performed at ‘Shashin: Photography from Japan,’ New York, as well as at ‘In the Wake Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11,’ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is continuing to gain recognition for his work internationally. In 2019, he wins the 45th Kimura Ihei Photography Award.