Koh Sato (Performing artist, Visual artist)
⑧ (NOT)Dissolving
Mood
[Description]
A video maker, drawer, visual and performance
artist. As chosen moment, a personal family tragedy. A loss that has endured
and become the source, the unsolved situation and the core of his recent art
practice. The Tsunami that took away his mother’s life, but which left,
standing amidst total destruction, a tall tree. Devastation and hope. This
cheerful young man, totally engaged to the project decided to chat and to have
the participants draw their beloved ones and dissolve in water the copies of
their figures. A conversational piece, between eminent loss and love for what
the present still offers as shared presence.
[Artist Statement]
There are hardships in human life. So, also
in my life, in your life.
I experienced it in three steps.
It starts on an ordinary day.
Next step is the loss of someone you love.
The end is the finding hope to live.
I want people to love the lost, before it
will be lost. After the lost, I wish you have the hope to live, and smile.
[Biography]
Koh Sato is a mixed media artist living in Tokyo, Japan. He was born in
1988, Iwate, Japan. In
2011, He graduated with B.A in Art Temple University Japan campus, Tyler School
of Art Program. He works in variety of media including: painting, photography
and film. On March 11th 2011, his mother passed away in the devastating
earthquake and Tsunami in Tohoku region of Japan. Based on the experience, he
made a short film "In The Sea fog". He has exhibited his video in
Switzerland, Japan, Australia, Thailand, and Philippine. Also he makes
collaboration art works with musicians and performers from various countries.
© Tokyo Wonder Site | photos : Masahiro Nagata
Tokyo Experimental Festival, November 15, 16, 17th, 2013. TWS Shibuya.
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