Daisuke Yokota

“There are no stories in my work. There is only what the viewers find within it for themselves. I am more interested in exploring time and multiple possibilities that exist in reality.”

“We recollect a single experience from the past again and again, but never in the same way twice. Memories are experienced in relation to the present. As we go through the act of repeatedly recalling our memories, I believe these memories change in relation to what is happening to us now. Although physical experience of time is singular, time at a conscious level can multiply with each recollection of memory and the different experiences of time generated by these actions pass in parallel to a physical time. By recreating those multiplying memories via a series of recollecting actions, I use them as important data that tell me about my current self and my surrounding world.”

'''I look at a photograph. It’s a photograph I took in the past. It was not so long ago that I took the photograph. Enough time has passed, however, that I cannot clearly recall the time when I shot the photograph. What was I thinking when I took this photograph? I probably did not mean anything special, but I must have been conscious of something. What was that consciousness? I cannot recall. Or perhaps I no longer know such consciousness. If I shot the photograph, I must have been present at the scene in which the photograph was taken. The photograph exists as a connection between the photographic subject, camera, and me. The photograph remains mainly unchanged, while experience changes memory. The memory and the photograph were created in the same place but they exist differently in time. The past appears fixed, but transforms according to changes in my consciousness.''

Inspired by provoke

links the past with the future of Japanese photography and reflects the artist’s desire to capture ideas of how memory is affected by the passage of time.

treated his images with acid