The work Summer 78 was made with the idea of displaced nostalgia, which came to the artist from a building in front of an abandoned swimming pool located in the east side of Berlin. While the painting part shows us an immaterial world/ilusion, the installation part gives us the sense of tangible materiality of the debris of a building. These differrent parts were co-employed to visualize the idea of the work more essentially/profoundly, and also to offer the viewers rhe multiple understanding of the depicted world. 

Text by Nobushige Kono 

Installation view in collaboration with Nobushige Kono (Japan)