Shinichiro Yoshii

The work Nuclear Power Station depicts a nuclear reactor operating stealthily in the suburb of Japan. I inquire into the notion of the irrational through nuclear technology and its politics to investigate moral and ethical issues.  When I visited, the generator was restarting. The power and the authority of the institution made the place feel desolate, isolated, and lifeless. There was a strong sense of fear and uncanniness. Despite the absolute existence of the nuclear power station, it felt almost invisible and non-existent because of how it was hidden away from our sight.

The work Shipyard depicts the construction of a petrol tanker. The densely packed image offers infinite details of the cruisers, the houses, the factory, the cranes, and the bridge. The scale is considered from the level of the human scale to much larger structures and further to the vast grey sky, which gives an omen of something happening in the future.

This work depicts the guardrail breaking into the ground in an unusual way, against an earthy stratum. I investigate the ideas of fall, decline and collapse. The notion of the fall has since become one of the central themes in my work. I aim to positively conceive the idea with often negative connotations. To accept it as a part of the two adjacent sides of life and not a dichotomy. 

The work White Shirt depicts the fragment of a shirt through a semi-transparent lattice window. Addressing the architectural, systematic and ordered image at much closer proximity. A white shirt as a unique item that can signal both individuality and collectivity; it is a private object but also a uniform to encourage a community.

The work Untitled depicts the dynamic movement and the collision of the two monumental blocks of grey concrete walls. With the vibrant yellow portal in the front, which unites them together and conceal what is behind it. The three distinct elements expresses a minimal yet unique sculptural and distorted space.