Temperature
A recent body of work in which Yokota intensifies his exploration of photographic materiality and transformation. The images originate from negatives subjected to heat, light leaks and chemical reactions, processes that leave visible traces on the surface of the work. Rather than preserving the photograph as a stable record, Yokota treats it as a vulnerable, reactive substance.
In Temperature, the image becomes both object and event. Figures and spaces seem to dissolve into unstable tonal fields, oscillating between abstraction and residual figuration. The physical stress applied to the material introduces a sense of volatility, as if the photograph were exposed to elemental forces. The series underscores Yokota’s ongoing investigation into photography as a medium defined not only by representation, but by temperature, pressure and time.
