Art has always reflected the culture that it springs from. It’s easy to look at the famous works of the Renaissance era and critique a culture obsessed with aristocracy, religion, and the discovery of oneself as revealed in nature. It’s harder to consider what future critics will take away from the art of the 21st…
March/April 2016: The Fractured World
Yoshimoto's work takes on the ephemerality of news and information and how the emotions are brought to each tragedy in the news cycle are swept away by the wave of information that floods the media. He addresses this social amnesia through his art with the work acting as a social memory for tragic events so quickly forgotten in our information age.
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