Yasu Ichige presents three videos that depict futility through spectacular means. In the first, "Burnout," the artist, donning a racing helmet that completely obscures his features, pulls a red sports car up against a barrier at a parapet overlooking the sea. Putting the car in gear, he races the wheels, white smoke obscuring the car, the excitement heightened with quick edits to the burning tires, the rising temperature gauge, the lowering fuel gauge, until the tires finally blow out. Abruptly, the car stops, and the camera pans out to the sea. All three works similarly extend a moment of tension to the point of exhaustion.

Yasu Ichige is an MA graduate of Goldsmith's College, London. He has had a solo exhibition at CASCO project space in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and has participated in recent group exhibitions at the City Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY, and Proposition Gallery, Belfast, Ireland. In May 2001, he received the Pola Art Foundation Overseas Research Grant, Japan.