Satoru YoshiokaPhotography

Works / Seeing & transformation

Whatever is sensible,
Beauty distorts. No.2

Monochrome photographs, presented as archival pigment prints in 2020.

Print year
2020
Process
Archival pigment print
Image size
270 × 340 mm
Edition
12
Signature
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist on verso

The familiar becomes less certain in these monochrome images. Objects and surfaces are approached through texture, light and an altered sense of space.

Whatever is sensible, Beauty distorts. No.2 was exhibited at gallery 176 in Osaka and 1839 Contemporary Gallery in Taipei in 2020. A handmade Beauty Distorts photobook followed in 2021.

A monochrome still life of a folded, textured object on a table
beauty distorts-073A1075 · Print year 2020
Monochrome photographic work from Beauty Distorts, image 073A1030
beauty distorts-073A1030 · Print year 2020

The series

57 works.

Print year 2020 · Archival pigment prints

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Beauty Distorts, work 073A1072
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Beauty Distorts, work 073A1129
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Exhibition history

Taipei & Osaka.

  1. Whatever is sensible, Beauty distorts. No.2

    1839 Contemporary Gallery · Taipei, Taiwan

    7 March–12 April 2020
  2. Whatever is sensible, Beauty distorts. No.2

    gallery 176 · Osaka, Japan

    31 January–11 February 2020
Framed photographic works installed at gallery 176 in 2020
Whatever is sensible, Beauty distorts. No.2 · gallery 176, Osaka, 2020

Contact

A conversation
begins with an image.

For exhibition proposals, curatorial enquiries, publications and information about prints or handmade books, please contact the artist.

Email Satoru Yoshioka

thekerotto@gmail.com