Works / Image & material
Tosa washi
& platinum
A meeting of scientific landscapes, handmade paper and photographic memory.
- Process
- Platinum-palladium printing
- Paper
- Tosa Hakkinshi — handmade Japanese washi
- Place
- Ino, Kochi, Japan
The structures of scientific research are often built from steel and other metals. Yoshioka brings their images into contact with a very different material: Japanese paper made from plant fibres.
Working with papermakers and collaborators in Kochi, he has contributed to the development of Tosa Hakkinshi, a washi paper made for platinum-palladium printing. In this work, the photographic image is also a physical object, carrying a record of scientific activity through paper, light and time.
The paper was developed through collaboration between the Tosa-no-Yama Paper Resource Association, Satoru Yoshioka and Ayako Yamane, with support from the Ino Regional Employment Promotion Council.
Solo exhibition / 2024
Washi and science.
Creating New Value with Tosa Washi:
Platinum & Alternative Photo Processes / Act 2
1–18 February 2024
Japanese Paper Museum Ino Town · Ino, Kochi, Japan
Photographs of scientific equipment printed on handmade washi bring the material of the image into a conversation with the subject it records.
Group exhibition / 2025
Black Traces / Sinking Light
Tosa Hakkinshi
PGI, Tokyo · 9 July–6 September 2025
Different photographic voices, brought together through the possibilities of a shared paper.
Yoshioka participated in this group exhibition dedicated to Tosa Hakkinshi. The exhibition included work by Kenro Izu, Yoshihiko Ito, Kikuji Kawada, Hisako Sakurai, Takeshi Shikama, Mark & Kristen Sink, Masanobu Seike, Sarah Moon, Kiyoshi Yagi and Satoru Yoshioka.
The installation photographs document a group exhibition and include works by multiple artists.
Contact
A conversation
begins with an image.
For exhibition proposals, curatorial enquiries, publications and information about prints or handmade books, please contact the artist.