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佐伯剛正 『撮ることは、撮られること 1967-1976』 2019年1月17日(金) 一般発売 アートディレクション：中島雄太 宮嶋隆輔 発行：赤々舎 サイズ：188 mm × 128 mm ページ数：256 pages 並製本 Published in December 2018. ISBN: 978-4-86541-085-3 |
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中井菜央『繡』（しゅう）
発行：赤々舎 Size： H228mm × W289mm Page：128 pages Binding：Hardcover Published in December 2018 ISBN：978-4-86541-092-1 |
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「存在」と「結び目」を問う中井菜央のポートレート。
「光り輝くことでもなく、闇に沈むことでもない、ただそこに在るということ。
私はそれをポートレートにしようと思いました。」
中井菜央は、人がその人としてただ生きて在ることを、写真で表現しようとしてきました。私たちは、自分自身にも人にも意味を重ねて捉えるのが常ですが、「意味」よりも先行し、かつ強くしぶといものとして「個の存在」を表わそうとしたのです。
やがてその眼差しは、人のみならず、物や動植物、風景へと伸びていきます。あらゆるものは時間の中で変化しますが、それは別の存在への転化ではなく、蝶が幼虫、さなぎと姿を変えるように、可変のなかの不変として「個の存在」を捉えるようになりました。
そして、「個の存在」が関わりを結び、ひとつの相貌を呈すること── たとえば森や都市、ある光景のポートレートをもカメラに収めるようになります。
世界はこの無名の関わり、「結び目」によって構成されているということを写真を通して中井は見出し、写真集『繍』は編まれました。
刺繍を施された布、その裏面をめくってみた時の静かな驚きをもって。
" 世界は過去から未来に広がり続ける時間という無地の布に、結び目で連なる『個の存在』という糸が縦横無尽に張り巡らされているようなものです。永遠の広さの布地と、無数の結び目と、無限に交錯する糸。 "
Shu
Nao Nakai
This project started when Nakai's grandmother fell ill to Alzheimer.The memory impairment clogs the flow of time.
The present loses expansion to past and future, converges into the minimal point of time as the disease progresses.
The sense of identity hardly remains in this process and exists only in random moments.
Her grandmother completely lost images cultivated throughout her lifetime, and images Nakai has been accumulating.
We give meanings to objects and perceive them in images. And we try to give meanings to ourselves and construct self images. The portrait photography is often either reflection of images held by photographers of their subjects, or purified and amplified results of subjects' self images, neither of which worked with Nakai's grandmother.
The questions, "what will portraiture photography capture of people?" and "what does it mean for a person to exist?", became synonymous.
She faced her grandmother with a camera.
A photograph out of many captured an individual presence that can only be described as her "grandmother".
This fact launched the whole project. This is a series of portraits capturing an individual presence from which subjective or objective meanings and images are peeled off.
Meanwhile, Nakai came to realize that this point of view can be applied to physical materials too.
And the world is a continuum of threads of individual presences entangled within the fabric of time expanding from present to past and future. People give meanings to this world and perceive from what they see through images.Nakai is now assured, after 9 years, that images are like what we see on the front of an embroidery.
However, the actual state of the world is represented by the complexity of interwovenness on the back of it.
The book evolved from a portrait of a person to portraits of the world. The letter chosen for the title "繡", pronounced Shu, is an ideogram representing complexity of embroidery.
My grandmother's death was the impetus for me.
My grandmother suffered from Alzheimer's disease late in life. Her diary indicates that in the initial stage of the disease she became aware that she had contracted it. And from that time, as if she were gathering up the memories falling away, grandmother began to write down in detail the little everyday things that happened. The content of the three daily meals, exchanges with family members, trimming of trees in the garden, the birds and insects that gathered there...
The diary book was opened many times a day and although the words written there were certainly her own, none remained in grandmother's mind.
Grandmother was aware that time for her was losing its past and future, was without connection or direction, instants lined up, and in despair she wrote in the diary "I'm going to become someone whose life won't have meaning anymore." Finally, she forgot everything--that, the diary itself, her family, and all about herself.
And things such as grandmother's self-awareness and her innate character and abilities were also all impaired.
From my childhood I really loved my grandmother, so I felt a deep sense of loss and bewilderment to see her change so completely. I couldn't help thinking, "This can't be called living." That was because in interacting with grandmother as she was now, I was seeking the image I held inside of how she was in the past. Yet watching grandmother swaying between existence and meaning also became a chance for me to reconsider what "living" is in essence.
That was because she was indeed living and I always felt the strength of that.
So in the several years until grandmother's death, I continued to photograph her. By doing that I hoped to get close to something of the essence of "living."
I avoided searching for the grandmother of my memory in the viewfinder; instead I always tried to capture her reality at the moment. Whenever I said "Look here at me" she was able to do it, but that was all. In her worsened condition, grandmother no longer knew what a camera was, who I was, or even who she herself was.
The photographs gave an accurate picture of grandmother as she was at the time. This enabled me to confirm the fact that the person in the photographs was not just "anyone," it was undeniably "grandmother."
This "grandmother" was not the image of her that grandmother herself had developed, not the image of grandmother that had accumulated and was stored inside me, and not a new image of grandmother, but an individual presence that could only be described as "grandmother."
The photographs expressed the strength--the tenaciousness--of her "individual presence" that never disappeared for a moment, no matter what the situation.
I decided that instead of contemplating in words what "the meaning of living" is, I would try instead to photograph persons living.
For me, grandmother's portrait served as an indicator.
Like that photograph, expressing people just living as themselves.
We, who ordinarily assign meaning to ourselves and other people we place layers of meaning on to understand them, tend to perceive absence of meaning in someone as meaning that the person is empty. However, the more photographs I take, the more certain I have become that "individual presence" precedes "meaning" and is stronger.
Eventually, I began to come across objects, plants and animals, scenery, and sights that I felt "seemed to resemble people living" and photographed them guided by those feelings.
When I printed out the photographs and lined them up with portraits, I noticed that the viewpoint of "individual presence" is not limited to "people." This was also noticing that we place layers of meaning on subjects other than people that we look at. I began to aspire to take photographs that returned from meaning back to "individual presence." For me, photographing objects is the process of composing portraits.
All things change form over time, but individual presence is unchanging from birth until that presence ceases to exist. The unchangeable within the changeable...
I photographed scenery, for example a forest or a city, with the same sense as I photographed portraits. However, there is no "individual presence" of a "forest" or "individual presence" of a "city." This is because a forest is composed of trees, grass, animals, insects, and a city is composed of buildings, streets, railways, the people gathered there for various purposes--both are a composite of the interactions of many "individual presences." Still, I get a feeling of the "individual presence" of places we name a "forest" or a "city" because the interaction of their many "individual presences" connect to present a unique appearance. I also photographed portraits of those appearances.
Cities are interactions intentionally made by people. Some forests are interactions produced by nature and some are interactions produced artificially by afforestation.
Some of the bonds of interaction such as those found in a forest have been tied continuously for hundreds and thousands of years, while some unravel in an instant.
Interactions, bonds that unravel instantly without people intending it. Most disappear without people taking notice of them. In other words, they are nameless interactions, bonds. I've continued this series for a long time, and in the end the repeated photographing I did was of this type. I found that the nameless bonds in this world are far greater in number than the ones we name.
Nameless interactions, bonds, no matter how small, are still each a component of the world, and the past exists to generate these small bonds; lacking bonds, the future will not arrive. Bonds that for us are without value (meaning) are indispensable to the world.
The world is like a plain cloth of time over which the threads of "individual presences" linked by bonds are freely spread that continues to stretch out from the past to the future. Cloth eternally wide, bonds in countless number, threads intertwining to infinity.
We place meaning on only a very small portion of these "individual presences" and only understand each according to our own image of them.
What neither shines nor sinks into darkness, but is simply there.
Those are the things whose portraits I desired to compose.
── Nao Nakai
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中井菜央（Nao Nakai）
Born 1978 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, Nao Nakai graduated from Nippon Photography Institute in 2006 and started working for the photography department of a publishing company in Tokyo. She has been working as a freelance since 2015, mainly focusing on her strong interests in portraiture photography. She has held numerous solo exhibitions all over Japan while her works have been featured in both print and online media domestically. Her first book Shuu (AKAAKA, 2018) has been critically acclaimed. The exhibition from the same project for the book was one of KG+ SELECT finalists in KG+, the satellite division of KYOTOGRAPHIE Kyoto International Photography Festival.
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インベカヲリ★『ふあふあの隙間』①②③
発行：赤々舎 Size：297 mm × 210 mm Page：8 pages Binding：Softcover Published in November 2018 ①ISBN：978-4-86541-089-1 ②ISBN：978-4-86541-090-7 ③ISBN：978-4-86541-091-4 |
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写真界を超えて反響を広げつづけるインベカヲリ★の最新作。生プリント付き三部作！
「他の人が当たり前にできることができなかったり、なぜかいちいち立ち止まってみたくなったり、完成したものを叩き壊したくなったり、知っていて破滅に向かいたくなるとき、ふわっと隙間が開いてその人が見えてくる」
インベが今年、初めてのデジタルカメラで撮影したシリーズ。撮影を希望するひとを募集し、会って聞いた話から汲み取った心象をもとにシチュエーションを考え、女性たちと作り出すポートレート。「ふあふあの隙間」では、より猥雑に街を写し込み、展開する場面をシャープに照らし出した。
やわらかくシリアスな深淵に通ずる隙間①
どこかポップで大胆な女の業が覗く隙間②
ストリートに生息するダークな隙間③
いずれも生プリント（各１枚、2Lサイズ）を貼り込んだり蛍光色を用いたり、ページの隙間を覗いてみたい欲望にもかられる。
女性たちとの対話の断片や呟きが、生々しく胸を打つテキストも挟み込む。
収録タイトル
ふあふあの隙間① 間に入る／影に飲まれる／最終ステージ／排毒／ぬいぐるみに珈琲を飲ませる
ふあふあの隙間② あなたは病気じゃありません／ガタンゴトンがきこえる／山陰の女／千夜、牙を研ぐ／６月の赤い雨／バービー疾走／ダイヤと石ころ
ふあふあの隙間③ サイクルの速い冬眠／処世術／森でとまり沼までこない／新・考えない人／無視されると絶望／傍観者／バブー／頭を冷やす／さいきんおもうこと／書面上の幸福
"soft opening" ①②③ can be sold individually.
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インベカヲリ★
Kawori Inbe
Photographer, born in Tokyo in 1980.
Many solo and group exhibitions, "Imperfect Cat" "Time to go back...to the moon." including those held not only in Japan but also in Milan and Shanghai.
Has shown at group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Barcelona and Hong Kong, and staged a solo 5 month-long solo exhibition in Milan over 2012 - 2013.
Assembled a special collection of works for the june 2013 feature issue of TEiCAM BOOKS, a free magazine in Paris.
Awards
2008 Nikon salon Jun Miki encouragement award
2018 43th The Ina Nobuo Award
2019 Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer's Award
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インベカヲリ★『理想の猫じゃない』
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インベカヲリ★と62人の女性によるポートレートとことば。
人と人、人と社会の関わりのなかで生じる揺れや問いや矛盾を抱いて、女性たちはインベの前に現れる。
たとえマイナス面であってもそれを表現したいと願うそれぞれの女性の姿が、話し合いを重ねて生み出されたイメージとなり、写真の中に、そして言葉の中に立ち現れる。
それは、被写体と写真家という位置付けを超えた創造であり、ドキュメントと虚構を新たな方法で重ね合わせるものだ。怒りや哀しみや問いがバネになって生まれるユーモアや大胆さ、矜持。
今回は初めて女性たちの話し言葉によるテキストも収載した。写真、作品タイトル、テキストが織り成す、フィクションとノンフィクションのせめぎあい。時代に刻まれた鮮やかな肖像。
「日々、情報を浴びる生活の中で、自分が本当に考えていることを探し出すのは至難のわざだ。うっかりすると、どこかで聞いたことがある台詞を自分で考えたことのように話してしまう。逆に、簡単には言葉にできないほどの感情は、凄まじいリアリティをもって心に響く。それは、私が女性たちから話を聞いていて感じることだ。向かい合って対話を続けているうち、独特な表現や価値観がふいに飛び出し、個 人の存在が生々しく浮かび上がってくる瞬間というのがある。一人ひとりは、こんなにも多様なのかと感動する瞬間がある。だから人間は面白く、写真の中で存在感を放つのだと思う。」（あとがきより）
インベカヲリ★の写真を初めて見たときは、2、3日写真の世界に取り憑かれた。そこには他人から見たら闇と痛みと孤独と汚物かもしれないけど、いろんなフィルターを外すと本当に純粋な『生と性』が写ってた。それからアルバムのジャケ写やアーティスト写真を撮ってもらうようになった。写真からインスパイアされたこともあった。いわゆる芸術写真やアートとは、やっぱり何かが違う。カメラでなければ、インベカヲリ★でなければ写せない何かを撮っているんだと思った。
毎回個展に行くたび、写真に取り憑かれるのが怖かったけど、ここ数年で少し写るものが変わってきた気がする。色で言ったら漆黒一色だったのが、色々な種類の黒色になった感じかな。それはこの写真集を見ていけば、なんとなくわかってもらえるんじゃないかと思う。
──── スガシカオ（シンガーソングライター）帯文より
＜第43回 伊奈信男賞 受賞！＞
インベさんの被写体はほとんど笑わない。日頃わたしたちが目にするあらゆる種類の写真のなかで、女性たちはたいてい静かに微笑んだり、元気に笑っているにもかかわらず。そうでなければ、彼女たちは少し開いた口元でこちらをじっと見つめたり、意思の強そうな視線を投げかけたりする（ように指示されている）。女性たちは、自分がいつも「誰かに見られている」ことを知っているかのようだ。
インベさんの写真にうつる女性は、鏡の中の自分を見ているか、部屋でひとり、誰にも気兼ねなく自分に集中している人がしそうな表情でそこにいる。もし、インベさんの写真があなたに違和感を感じさせるとすれば、それは被写体の女性たちがにこやかにあなたを見つめ返したり、あなたが見ているとわかったうえで自分を演出していないからかもしれない。
「理想の猫じゃない」展は、被写体とインベさんが話し合いを重ねて生み出したイメージで構成されていた。被写体の多くは自分が置かれている、どちらかといえば不思議な状況を驚くでもなく喜ぶでもなく、ただ、フレームの中でやるべきことを淡々と遂行している。写真の世界では長らく、クリエイティビティという意味において被写体は写真家の下位に位置づけられてきた。いっぽうで、写真という表現媒体も単なる「記録」とみなされて、アートの下位に位置づけられることがある。インベさんの作品はそのようなヒエラルキーの構造を撹乱し、創造する者とその対象、パフォーマンスする側と記録者のような二極対立的な役割分担では語れない、新しい写真行為の可能性を示唆するもののようにみえる。
──── 長島有里枝「第43回伊奈信男賞 授賞理由」ニコンイメージングサイトより
Imperfect Cat
Kawori Inbe
The women featured in Kawori Inbe's photography often appear before her in crucial moments of their lives, amidst significant life changes, ongoing problems, or unresolved worries.
Being photographed is an act of expression, and Inbe thinks that many women who are photographed have something to convey. Even if it has on negative aspects, the urge to express oneself may be particularly unique to women, which is why Inbe is drawn to taking photos images of women.
The title of the photobook, "Imperfect Cat," is a line spoken by a perpetrator in a certain incident. In October 2017, a man employed as a temporary teacher at a high school in Kitakyushu, Japan, was accused of killing his pet cats one after another and disposing of a total of 20 cats as burning garbage. Explaining his motive, the man claimed, "I killed them because they didn't meet my idea of the perfect cat, elaborating that a perfect cat should respond when called, allow touching, and use the litter box properly."
Upon hearing this line, Inbe was struck by an indescribable shock, feeling it succinctly encapsulated the essence of Japan's educational system and society in one sentence, with the perpetrator being a teacher adding a darkly ironic twist.
It is inherently unreasonable to demand obedience from a free-spirited cat, and the notion of a "Perfect Cat" simply doesn't exist in the feline realm.
However, for humans, it's often easier to adopt the role of someone else's ideal rather than staying authentic to oneself. Society is full of people who emulate the "Perfect Cat" And when one fails to conform the "Perfect Cat" or attempts to escape from being one, they may risk being metaphorically "killed" by society.
In today's society, uncovering one's genuine thoughts is a daunting task. If one let their guard down, they might end up speaking words they've heard elsewhere as if they were their own thoughts..
The photographs featured in "Imperfect Cat" are created through conversations between the subjects and Kawori Inbe. During these exchanges, unique expressions and values emerge, vividly showcasing the individual's presence.
Within the realm of photography, the subject especially women, has long been perceived as subordinate to the photographer in terms of creativity. Similarly, photography itself is sometimes relegated to a mere documentary or record status, placed lower in the art hierarchy. Inbe's work challenges these hierarchical norms, opening up new avenues for photographic expression beyond the conventional roles of creator and subject, performer and recorder.
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Artist Information
インベカヲリ★
Kawori Inbe
Photographer, born in Tokyo in 1980.
Many solo and group exhibitions, "Imperfect Cat" "Time to go back...to the moon." including those held not only in Japan but also in Milan and Shanghai.
Has shown at group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Barcelona and Hong Kong, and staged a solo 5 month-long solo exhibition in Milan over 2012 - 2013.
Assembled a special collection of works for the june 2013 feature issue of TEiCAM BOOKS, a free magazine in Paris.
Awards
2008 Nikon salon Jun Miki encouragement award
2018 43th The Ina Nobuo Award
2019 Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer's Award
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