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Daisuke Yokota Japanese
Not on view
Born in Saitama, Japan, Daisuke Yokota views his artistic practice as a form of performance, a cameraless exploration of abstract visual harmonies, static, delay, reverb, and echo similar to that of electronic musicians. The blurring of pigmented layers and the removal of any relationship to the so-called real world directly references the work of 1920s avant-garde artists László Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray, who made pictures often only with light and objects placed directly on photographic paper. Here, Yokota has wholly embraced the alchemical, bypassing both the use of a lens and any trace of physical objects. "I wanted to focus on the emulsion, on the different textures, more than on a subject being photographed."
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