Our Implications (Minami Shimabara) — print 1

Print 1 of the Our Implications (Minami Shimabara) series is an aluminium-plate lithograph made in connection with the Shimabara Peninsula in southern Nagasaki Prefecture, a region whose layered history includes 16th-century Christian conversion, the suppression of the Shimabara Rebellion in 1637–38, and the volcanic landscape of Mt. Unzen. The series title, Our Implications, frames the work as an inquiry into shared inheritance — what a present-day visitor and resident alike are tacitly bound up in by being there. As the first print in the sequence, it establishes the visual register for the rest of the set: aluminium-plate lithography lends itself to fast on-site drawing, and the medium can be worked within a portable studio set-up consistent with the site-responsive method Yokoo has developed in his Japanese-period practice. The print belongs to a wider 2024 turn in his work toward locating each editioned image in a specific Japanese place — a turn continued the following year in the Roadworks (Yanaka) series.