Yoshi Kametani: I’ll Be Late

In ‘I’ll Be Late,’ Yoshi Kametani explores existential anxieties related to life, death, time, and entropy. The book captures familiar domestic scenes, blending images of friends with moments like dirty dishes, pizza crusts, and burning cigarettes. Kametani’s meticulous four-layer screen-printing process deconstructs and reconstructs these images, emphasizing the relentless passage of time and the transformation from harmony to chaos within the natural cycle of entropy. This method allows viewers to engage with the work, witnessing its materialization and gaining insight into the author’s interpretation of the images.

“The time I spent on creating the work also informed my thoughts on the subject. All of the images are shot indoors of intimate moments which would not have been possible without the passage of time. Our friendship and trust was built within it.”

Yoshi Kametani is an American visual artist working across photography, video, print, and sculpture currently living and working in Athens. His practice largely reflects on time, destruction, chaos and mortality. At the core of his work is an exploration of entropy, a natural force lending itself to nihilism while embracing the inevitable cycle of rise and decay.