Contemporary Art Gallery

Criterium 98Satoshi Nishizawa

Tomiokamachi, Futaba-gun, Fukushima, 2018 [Reference Image]

Satoshi Nishizawa creates photographs and videos by using the camera to document the lives of individuals and the social and economic aspects that erode and reflect on the ordinary sceneries. In recent years, his interest has turned to the monuments across the county, working with the symbolic motifs such as memorial and tourism facilities, iconic statues, and the areas in the process of post-disaster recovery. Through his photographs Nishizawa questions our ways of seeing these monuments that represent the commemoration yet induce oblivion.
In addition to his ongoing subject matters, Nishizawa will present photographs of landscapes that he has been working on since 2019 that offer glimpses of behavior changes and invisible constraints that have become part of everyday life.

About Criterium:
Criterium comes from the Latin “criterion,” which means a standard. Every exhibition is formed jointly by the artist and the curator.