Hideo Kojima and Nicolas Winding Refn Come Together in New Tokyo Show
Opening at Prada Aoyama on April 18.
Fondazione Prada is set to open a new exhibition by game auteur Hideo Kojima and filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn. The latest collaboration from the long-time friends and creative allies, Satellites explores the “universal concept of connection” across language, territory and mediums.
Housed at Prada Aoyama in Tokyo, the exhibition immerses visitors to a mid-century domestic space, characteristic of their shared cinematic flair. In the main space, six retrofuturistic televisions broadcasting the artists in meditative dialogue, circling topics of identity, technology death and what endures beyond.
Meanwhile, a cassette player and a stack of tapes sit in a nearby dressing room. Overlaying cinematic scores with various translations of the artist’s conversations in different languages, each visitor will puzzle their own version of the dialogue in a unique listening sequence.
Satellites finds beauty in the “interrelation between two distant entities,” in all of its ebbs and flows. Kojima and Rejn imagine a collective future with poetic possibility, suggesting that connection might not exist in spite of the shifting digital landscape but because of it.
The exhibition will open in Tokyo on April 18 and remain on view through August 25.
Prada Aoyama
5-2-6 Minami Aoyama,
Minato-ku, Tokyo
