SATELLITES
PRADA AOYAMA
18 April - 25 August 2025
5-2-6 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Monday to Sunday: 11am - 8pm
“Satellites” is an exhibition conceived by Danish movie director Nicolas Winding Refn with Japanese game creator Hideo Kojima, presented at Prada Aoyama Tokyo from 18 April to 25 August 2025.
press release
A project organized with the support of Fondazione Prada and envisioned by the creative studio byNWR.
The collaboration between Refn and Kojima highlights their elective affinities, allowing them to transcend the individual dimension and overcome language barriers. The show transports visitors to a cinema-inspired interior set where suspended images of Refn and Kojima appear, locked in a contemplative conversation as they investigate the universal concept of human connection. The interrelation between two distant entities, also evoked by the metaphorical orbits of satellites in the exhibition title, is the focal point of the entire project. This topic resonates in Kojima’s game dynamics, where the connection of territories and people reshapes the idea of multiplayer, and in Refn’s cinematic poetics, where mental and affective concatenations transcend the logic of reality.
Both artists operate in the belief that today, the film and video game industries and processes tend to draw closer and overlap and, in the future, may merge into a shared digital dimension, offering new possibilities for individual or collective experiences.
The fifth floor of Prada Aoyama is transformed into a mid-century domestic space that transports visitors into an alternate dimension. The installation comprises six retro-futuristic televisions, where suspended images of Nicolas Winding Refn and Hideo Kojima engage in a deep and contemplative conversation. Their dialogue addresses many themes, including friendship, creative collaboration, new technologies and creativity, identity and communication, death and what remains afterwards. In the nearby dressing room a cassette player sits amid stacks of tapes. The tapes blend sound bites and cinema soundtracks, interwoven with alternate, AI-translated versions of Refn and Kojima’s conversation in various languages. Visitors piece together a unique, personalized version of the dialogue by sifting through the different languages on each tape.
LINK: Satellites
