Gravitation, 2024

Jukan Tateisi and Takeshi Yasura’s Gravitation (2024) is a video installation consisting of low-resolution screens that contrast with our ultra-high-resolution media. Based on a joint exhibition of the same name held in 2023 that was co-created with Japanese artist Shoei Matsuda (b. 1986), the latest iteration continues to explore the idea of a falling teacup and saucer as an everyday accident that is transformed in the digital world.

Visitors are invited to walk among a collection of segmented LED screens propped up against the walls. Fragments of the broken saucer from the previous edition, which were 3D scanned and digitized, are cast across the panels.

The pieces float gracefully in the virtual space, each pixel on the monitors resembling a distant star in the universe. By deliberately reducing the pixel density in an era of 8K video consumption, the artwork encourages a return to creativity in our physical reality.