Satoshi Hori “Runtime Friends”
We visited Satoshi Hori’s first solo exhibition “Runtime Friends” held at Bambinart Gallery.
“Runtime” is a programming term meaning “during execution.”
The title of this exhibition, “Runtime Friends,” envisions as “friends” the presence of runtime processes that vanish the moment a program is closed.
For example, look through a train window and you see the sky, in-car advertisements, and reflected people layered into a single, motionless image.
The relentlessly disappearing scenery of the city aligns perfectly with the process by which one’s own memories are lost.
Something was surely there. But it is no longer there, and I cannot recall it.
In this exhibition, I aim to actively extract such behaviors of absence and relate them to the image of “friends.” (Satoshi Hori)
The compositions of paintings in which multiple images overlap, and the 2018 series “Days of Landscape” and “Strangers,” among others, convey a sense of reality belonging to the neo-digital-native generation in Hori’s paintings. At the same time, the viewing experience produced by his richly poetic style evokes a sensation that resonates across generations.
Hori is currently a third-year student in the oil painting course at Tokyo University of the Arts.
He appears to be popular among Geidai students, and many students reportedly gathered at the opening.
Works that envision as “friends” the presence of runtime processes that vanish the moment a program is closed.
Although expressed with a digital-generation sensibility, the works evoke a sense of nostalgia rather than novelty.
A young artist with a strong sense of style. We look forward to seeing what’s next.
