To young Japanese artist Hiroshi Sato, it’s all about tracing characters’ conscious and subconscious. With the harmonious colours as well as the interplay between elegance and dreaminess, the series Fan Fiction is reminiscent of American painter Edward Hopper. The rooms and figures breathe with the spirit of contemporary and complex perception. Sato’s painterly hand is unmistakable. Although the subjects are turned away from the viewer, the works lead the viewer into a film far beyond the picture’s surface. They feel like a mirror to our consciousness. With their nearly white