WORKS

The "senne" series is a video installation by Yoshitaka Nanjo that deals with the latent layers of time and landscape, developed while traveling to seaside locations both in Japan and abroad. As the word "senne" (sleeping/in a dream) suggests, the landscapes in this work are not clear geographical records, but rather constructed as images that settle in the depths of memory. The repeating water surfaces and circulating flows suggest that time does not progress linearly, but rather is a movement that repeats deposition and return.

In the exhibition in Pingtung, Taiwan, sand containing coral reefs collected from the surrounding coastline was incorporated into the artwork, and the materiality of the land was invoked through the devices of video and mirrors. This structure resonates with the concept of a "2.5-dimensional palimpsest" discussed by critic Clelia Czernik. In other words, in this work, the landscape appears in an intermediate dimension where the plane of the video, the material layers of sand and mirrors, and the viewer's body intersect.

The footage of a 90-year-old fisherman rowing a wooden boat in the work does not record a specific place, but rather functions as a symbolic condensation of the memories of people who have lived in harmony with the sea. As footage shot in different locations overlaps with the sand of Pingtung behind a mirror, the differences in location are abstracted, transforming into a "dream landscape" that connects with the memories of each viewer. "Senne" presents a space where land, material, and memory intersect, liberating the landscape from a fixed image and offering layers of open time that continue to be carried to different ports and venues.