“Concrete Octopus” by Osamu Kanemura
0Hardcover
88 pages
30×18.9 cm
B/W
Pierre von Kleist Édition / Osiris
2017
Overview
『Concrete Octopus』は、金村が2002年に発表した高評価を得た『Spider’s Strategy』の続きとなる作品である。OsirisとPierre von Kleistが初めてタッグを組み、金村の2011年から2013年にかけての新作を発表する。東京在住の映画評論家クリス・フジワラによるテキストを収録。
Concrete Octopus takes off where Kanemura’s 2002 acclaimed Spider’s Strategy left off. For the first time, Osiris and Pierre von Kleist team up to present Kanemura´s new work from 2011 to 2013. With a text by Chris Fujiwara, a film critic living in Tokyo.
It would be strange and misleading, though obviously not wholly inaccurate, to call these photographs “images of the Japan of the present time.” Though they might perhaps have much to say to the social historian, their documentary function is circumscribed by the interest in exploring a visual universe too disunited and incomplete to be recognizable as a cultural or historical form. In these images, the world presents itself with great purity, without provocation or seduction, as though poised in the interval before the repetition of an already-forgotten catastrophe.
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