El Dorado of “PowerShot G7 X Mark Ⅲ”
Teppei Sako Solo Exhibition
2025.02.01（sat.）- 02.28 (fri.)
open on fri., sat., & sun. 12:00-18:00
appointments are available on weekday
Special thanks to CANON
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“El Dorado of “Power Shot G7 X Mark Ⅲ”” is a project started in August 2022, in which I look back at a week’s worth of my daily snapshots, select 10 of them, crop them to square, and present them on Instagram with diary-like text.
“Power Shot G7 X Mark Ⅲ” is the name of Canon compact digital camera I use for snapshots, which I have been using continuously since April 2020. On the other hand, “El Dorado” is the name of the main character in the comic book “Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!” by Sumito Oowara, the title of the fourth animated film produced by Midori Asakusa and students of Eizouken, “Tanuki’s Eldorado”. I was sympathetic to the theme of rejecting “good versus evil,” but I must confess that I was more stimulated by the word and its jarring effect. I watched “El Dorado” (1966, Paramount Pictures), directed by Howard Hawks, on August 23, 2024, and did not find any connection point with my own efforts, nor did I find the film itself very interesting.
I majored in printmaking when I was in art school, and I learned that a rough sketch (original or manuscript) is necessary for printmaking at any rate, and that without it, production cannot begin. I also learned a lot from watching the he professor in my laboratory, who worked on a huge amount of drawings every day, and at the same time, always carried a camera to take snapshots. Even as I graduated from college and continued to work with video and photography, those things were always stuck in a corner of my mind, which led me to ask the question of how I consume my days and led to the “Declaration of Emergency,” a special measures law against the new coronavirus that was passed on March 13, 2020, and When the “Declaration of Emergency” was issued on April 7, 2020, and I was ordered to work at home from April 13, 2020, my daily efforts began with the answer of “going out every day and taking snapshots or video materials”.
Whether it is a photographic or video work, when I start production, having a certain amount of stock material and spending time looking back at it has naturally led to changes in my own work. Both the “LCD Zombies” series, which I began in 2021, and the “Slivers on the Window” series, which I began in 2023, are based on the problem of snapshots and how snapshots are combined.
In this exhibition, my last solo show in Kyoto in seven years, I plan to exhibit mainly snapshots taken during the period when I continued to present “El Dorado of “Power Shot G7 X Mark Ⅲ”” (as of December 15, 2024, there are 71,092 snapshots). In addition, I plan to exhibit photographic works created using those snapshots as material, video works, and my self-published book “CHILL TOWN”.
I would like to invite everyone to see how “looking back at the photographs” will result in my works.
Teppei Sako
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