Mototake Makishima
Abandoned Time
About the artist
Mototake's work has been shown at several international festivals including Festival du Noveau Cinéma de Montréal, REFEST and Sonar Cinema. He was also invited to participate at the Berlinale Talent Campus 2005. He had his first solo show at Sketch gallery in central London in autumn 2003 and has taken part in group shows in New York, Barcelona and London. He was awarded Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists and Union Foundation for Ergo-design Culture Grant. He has lived in London for eight years.
About the work
Inspired by a totally isolated ruined building in Japan, far from any type of human contact. Nearly three quarters of the building, which is located in a reservoir, is sunk in the water. People do not have a clear idea of what has happened within the confinements of this building. This lack of knowledge has created an infinite reproduction of the imaginary creature, which struggles against a living condition of a possible future of flooding by global warming, inside the director's imagination.
