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Upcoming Exhibition
Good Times — Yoshi Kametani
Opening on Saturday, May 3rd, 8pm
“If they ever drop a really big bomb, they told us to hold up your thumb just like this. And if the cloud is smaller than your thumb, you run for the hills.” 1
If it is bigger, you are already dead.
People are expected to keep smiling through situations that shouldn’t be smiled through. Not because it helps, but because there isn’t a clear alternative. In visual language graphics are bright, but messaging is calm. There's always a mascot or a slogan. Imagery of trustworthiness and reliability, such as giving the thumbs up, is becoming a measuring tool for our misery.
There’s always a new version of the same emergency. This repetition of events feels like a hook looping in a song you have already heard a thousand times, but you can’t memorize the lyrics. It feels familiar and cozy, and yet you have no idea what it’s talking about.
“I see trouble on the way” - but don’t worry, everything’s under control.
Yoshi Kametani is an American visual artist working across photography, video, print, and sculpture, currently living and working in Athens. His practice largely reflects on time, destruction, chaos and mortality. At the core of his work is an exploration of entropy, a natural force lending itself to nihilism while embracing the inevitable cycle of rise and decay.
Curated by
Nikoletta Georgakopoulou (@nikolettageorgakopoulou)
and Auðunn Kvaran (@audunnaudunnaudunnaudunnaudunn)
Text by Nikoletta Georgakopoulou