Kawanabe’s photography provokes us to feel presences which are not shown in a vision which implies the involvement of all our senses - emblematic is the black picture which ‘describes’ the night. Still immersed in the night but void of romanticism are the barely lit roads and parks by Romoki Imai, wide and empty, unreal and loaded with anguish.
Erika Yoshino’s shots are instead taken in full daylight, going around the streets and alleyways and taking pictures before the curious eyes of passer bys. Asako Narahashi brings evocative images where the sky and sea meet, and where the land, seen from above or from the port, is none other than a point of contact between the two elements. The images by Koji Onaka are the result of wandering between the city and the suburbs, a landscape photography which aims to offer a realistic vision of places. The darkness of the underground railways is the centre of interest of Tomoko Isoda whilst the photography of Risa Kayahara Impregnata is one of light and contrast: the subjects are all rivers and water which remain suspended in abstract landscapes, where what counts is the effect of the light itself. Concluding the exhibition are Keiji Tsuyuguchi’s landscapes, “diptychs” of the same view taken at different times.
until 13.12.2002
Black Out. Fotografia Giapponese Contemporanea
Istituto giapponese di cultura
via A. Gramsci 74, Rome
T +39-06-3224794/54
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