Keiko Sato's Page

Website

http://www.keikosato.nl

Relationship status

in a relationship

College / University

Goldsmiths' Collage, Jan van Eyke Akademie

Program

Fine Art

Graduation

June 10, 1995

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Installation, Photography, Video

I am...

Keiko Sato. I was born in Japan, worked as a midwife for 10 years and went to London to study Fine Art. I am living in the Netherlands.

About my artwork

When I create a work, I first follow the nature, structure, quality and the meaning of materials and objects that I am dealing with. For instance, I believe that the emotional meaning of cigarette butts lies in the fact that they are a remnant of human behaviour and desire. Ashes imply that something was burnt. They represent the process of disappearance and death. In the end, I use this emotional meaning and the organic structure of objects to give form to my work.
One day, I put a big glass tube (about 30cm x 150cm) on the floor in the corridor of the Art Academy. A man with limited eyesight knocked over the tube and smashed it completely. I went there and knew I had discovered something important, yet it was not clear to me what that something was. How the tube turned into pieces of glasses in one second was amazing. The tube was no longer there: only fragments remained. I then realized that in nature, everything changes, and that nothing is stable. When something disappears or is destroyed, something new begins. This discovery gave me an idea of destroying objects and making something new out of them, as if creating a new landscape with pre-existing materials. In my work, the old and the new, and the end and the beginning are present at the same time. In other words, different concepts of time claim the same space. The works show and imply the direct and natural process of material changing.

Centre of the artworld:

nowhere and everywhere