Taro Hattori

“Mostly my art focuses on multi-media installations incoporating video, photography, sound and text. My artwork is described as the reflection of the three backgrounds; psychology, theater and post-structuralism. Referring to the autobiographical or experiential issues, I take a psychoanalytic process while making art.” Exhaustiveness is a kinetic structure with light and three images projected on the floor covered with pages from an encyclopedia. Composed of metal, video, and paper, it stresses the desire to aquire knowledge through expansion of the “self” or “ego”. UUS is an installation composed of neon lamps, slide film, metal and wood set up in a horizontal viewing format. This piece develops itself through the the idea of placement, state of mind, identity, and perceptions of reality. Both installations will be on view in CEPA ‘s Passageway Gallery.