Japanese artist Shingo Yoshida investigates the relationship of individuals to their immediate reality in his photos, films and installations. Geographic as well as mental distances form the basis of the difficulties he portrays, often with a performative quality borrowed from the theatre of the absurd. In an environment that is constantly evolving, and a global reality that fuses cultures and identities to become less and less related to any specific place, Yoshida returns to folkloristic myths and legends to construct a micro universe in his art. In the video SOS Morse code-Fernsehturm (2010), the artist documents himself at the top of the Berlin TV tower, sending out a Morse code SOS to no recipient in particular in a city that could be anywhere in the world. While generally considered a negative feeling, to Yoshida loneliness is something so beautiful and so forceful it becomes almost tangible.