Daisuke Yokota: Sediments

Opening reception | June 11, 2022 | 4–6 pm

Casemore is pleased to present Sediments, a first solo exhibition for Daisuke Yokota with the gallery.

In the forefront of Japanese artists experimenting in photographic image making, Yokota explores the perception of time through photography inquiring how can time be included in a still image. Using the photographic negative as the starting point, Yokota focuses on the materiality of photographic construction, namely film and paper before layering sheets of unused, large-format color film, ranging in size. Yokota develops the layers of unused color film using boiling water to allow new colors to emerge as the emulsion melts and silver oxidizes, then the damaged sheets of film, which no longer can be developed, are scanned to create the final work.

Often described as "hallucinatory," Yokota’s process relates to his interest in distilling photography to its elemental matter while eliciting abstraction through human intervention. The twelve new untitled works in Sediments represent Yokota’s desire to remove any reference to the object, providing an existence beyond titles creating a nameless object from source material once wrought with worldly identification. 

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