In February, Guardian Garden will host “indication,” a solo exhibition of works by Daisuke Yokota, winner of the Grand Prize in the 2nd “1_WALL” Photography Competition held in the spring of 2010. “1_WALL” is a series of open competitions, held separately in the categories of photography and graphics, launched in 2009 to supersede the earlier “Hitotsubo” competitions. A pamphlet prepared by Yokota in tandem with this event will be available for purchase in the gallery.

Uncertain vision: a collection of photographs open to interpretation by the viewer
Daisuke Yokota won the Grand Prize for “Fog,” his flash photos taken with a digital camera in which, attracted to space in which memory and the present, image and reality, co-exist in perfect harmony, he sought to capture something within a misty vision. The photos were acclaimed for their “sense of speed, seeking to grasp what is aimed at” and for their “sensual integrity.”
In his solo exhibition Yokota will unveil “indication,” his new work on the theme of how people view and interpret what they see differently depending on their preconceptions.
What we see is greatly influenced by what we each experience in our everyday lives. Yokota has experienced firsthand how, even when we look at the same thing as somebody else, we each interpret it altogether differently; and he is interested in how, even when looking at the identical thing, what it indicates to us differs depending on our individual preconceptions and knowledge. And at that point, from an earlier conviction that what we see is certain, the doubt takes root that perhaps what we see is actually uncertain.
In the photos Yokota will be showing here, we may find a scene of a forest in which something seems to be lurking, or a landscape resembling that of a planet somewhere as seen from a space probe, or an image-like something we saw sometime in a dream or hidden in the mists of our memory. Every photo should speak eloquently of various things depending on the viewer. Visitors are sure to enjoy Yokota’s world mixing what is real and what is fallacious.