Koichi Sato
Whispering Thermal
Walking through Atami, I felt a sensation as if the geothermal energy was stirring up human desires. This video is a sketch revolving around several geothermal sites and the subtle power of desire lurking in those places. Inside the geothermal greenhouses, alligators wriggling with only their faces above the water’s surface appear like moving islands. It seems to be a reenactment of the geological drama from when this peninsula once met the main island of Honshu. The mist and steam drift and change shape, as if responding to the movements of the earth’s crust and human desires.
◆ATAMI ART RESIDENCE Special Curation Program
Curator: Seiha Kurosawa
Participating Artists: Miki Ishiyama, Koichi Sato, Monica Hapsari
Curatorial Assistant: Phiraya Ardwichai
Sponsors: Toho High School 31st Graduates Kichijoji Society, VOLOCITEE, Yuki Tokuhiro, Hanazono Alley, Kenji Hirasawa, Isukura
Born in 1990, completed his MA in Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts. Sato conducts research and fieldwork on relationships between the natural environment and industrial/ consumer society and creates works that combine video, sound and scent in complex ways. Solo exhibitions include “Crepuscular Gardens” (Shiseido Gallery, 2018) and “Third Landscape” (the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2019).
