石川竜一『zk』       Book Design：町口覚       発行：赤々舎   Size： H325mm × W262mm   Page：208 pages   Binding：Hardcover   Published in December 2022   ISBN：978-4-86541-160-7	¥ 6,000＋tax  国内送料無料！ 【国内／Domestic Shipping】  お支払い方法は、銀行振込、郵便振替、 クレジットカード支払い、PayPal、PayPay よりお選び頂けます。 【海外／International Shipping】 ＊ Please choose your area from the two below    　　　 Book + Asia shipping ¥11,150 JPY Book + World shipping ¥13,750 JPY

zk 

Ryuichi Ishikawa

"zk" is a coded symbol for a spectacular view (zekkei in Japanese), and for the surge of emotion that floods the entire body, via the sense of sight, when we encounter certain amorphous views. It signifies the relationship between landscape and emotion, between outside and inside. The feelings that emerge the moment the view is seen, the body's reaction to the camera's shutter release, the thought process of interpreting them, the self which encompasses all that has occurred up to the present moment. Symbols are culture. Culture is the collective. The collective is movement. Movement is existence. Existence is will. Will is the exterior of everything. All things exist, not for the purpose of someone or something in particular. The world is both outside and inside. It is only being that connects everything, and being overlaps with nothingness. Overlapping, fluctuation, entanglement. Go beyond "meaning." Simply exist as part of the world that is.

People cannot help being born and cannot help dying. To live means to accept that helplessness. All unnameable things cast their shadows under the light of the world. No one can see the world as it is, we can only ceaselessly trace its shadows. We are simply driven by emotions, and while we may be able to think about things, we can never truly know anything about them. There is certainly no way to know where we ourselves are headed.

Where is the boundary between outer surface and interior? Where do the concrete and the abstract connect? Objects, as we see them, are not absolute. To see objects is to see the relationship between them, it is simply a state of flowing energy. The world appears to be saturated with objects and information, but even blank spaces only exist in relation to objects, and all the while, the world is filled with energy and bound by relationships.

There are things that photographs cannot capture, too. Still, they enable us to engage with and interpret things to which it is difficult to give form. A photograph is nothing but a photograph, and for us similarly to be nothing other than what we are, the best we can hope for is to face what is occurring in front of us and around us, to stop adopting an aloof or defiant attitude, to abandon the idea that we are unconcerned and uninvolved. So many things are sad, so many things are painful, that's why I hate a world like this. That's why even if I have to grapple with these things, struggle, feel like I'm about to be crushed, I like and admire people who can simply be happy to be alive, even if there is no meaning to it. And as time goes by, as it always does, I long for the past that must have been, look ahead to the future that is still unknown, and simply look at what is in front of me. At the people who are always with me, the people who have left my life, the people I only encountered briefly. At the misery, the emptiness, the isolation of wandering lost in a concrete jungle. Because otherwise, all connections would be broken.

A spectacular view is an idea. To me, a spectacular view is whatever one sees when living life with eyes wide open, looking straight ahead.

In editing this photo book, I was thoroughly confronted with and inevitably reminded of where I am at the moment. Ah, this is how I see the world. This is how I live my life. Did I will myself to be this way, and if so, how did I become the way I am? Did I just click-click the camera shutter as if nodding my head for a brief instant? Am I that empty and hollow? If so, how do I really want things to be?

Just before I had finalized the layout of the book, I awoke from a dream in which my father had killed me, and was surprised to find tears streaming down my cheeks. The emotion that lingered was not fear, but a kind of loneliness bordering on insanity, or the nostalgic sense of being left behind in a void.

Suddenly, the Miyaji family cat appears from under the table and curls up on the keyboard on which I am writing this. "654eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"...

How can I see you from here?

（from the text "zk" by Ryuichi Ishikawa）

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Artist Information 

石川 竜一 

1984年沖縄県生まれ。2010年、写真家 勇崎哲史に師事。2011年、東松照明デジタル写真ワークショップに参加。2012年「okinawan portraits」で第35回写真新世紀佳作受賞。2015年、第40回木村伊兵衛写真賞、日本写真協会賞新人賞受賞。 主な個展に2014年「RYUICHI ISHIKAWA」gallery ラファイエット（沖縄）、「zkop」アツコバルー（東京）、「okinawan portraits」Place M（東京）、2015年「okinawan portraits」The Third Gallery Aya（大阪）、「A Grand Polyphony」Galerie Nord（パリ）、2016年、「okinawan portraits 2012-2016」Art Gallery Artium（福岡）、「考えたときには、もう目の前にはない」横浜市民ギャラリーあざみ野、2017年「OUTREMER/群青」アツコバルー（東京）2018年「zkop: a blessing in disguise」Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix（ロンドン）、2019年「home work」The Third Gallery Aya（大阪）、2021年「いのちのうちがわ」SAI（東京）、2022年「RECORDry」BD Gallry（名古屋）など。 主なグループ展に2016年「六本木クロッシング2016展：僕の身体、あなたの声」森美術館（東京）、「Body/Play/Politics」横浜美術館（神奈川）、2017年「日産アートアワード2017：ファイナリスト5名による新作展」BankART Studio NYK（神奈川）、2019年 「Oh！マツリ★ゴト 昭和・平成のヒーロー&ピーポー」兵庫県立美術館（兵庫）「作家と現在 ARTISTS TODAY」沖縄県立博物館・美術館（沖縄）、「Reborn-Art Festival」石巻（宮城）、2022年「国際芸術祭 あいち2022」常滑（愛知）など。 主な写真集に『okinawan portraits 2010-2012』『絶景のポリフォニー』『adrenamix』、『okinawan portraits 2012-2016』、『いのちのうちがわ』（いずれも赤々舎）、『CAMP』（SLANT）。 

Ryuichi Ishikawa

Born in Okinawa in 1984. In 2010 he studied under photographer Testushi Yuzaki. In 2011 he participated in the Shomei Tomatsu Digital Photography Workshop. He received the 35th New Cosmos of Photography Honorable Mention for "okinawan portraits" in 2012. In 2015, he received the 40th Kimura Ihei Photography Award and the Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer's Award.

Major solo exhibitions include, 2014 "RYUICHI ISHIKAWA" gallery Lafayette (Okinawa), "zkop" Atsukobarouh (Tokyo), "okinawan portraits" Place M (Tokyo), "A Grand Polyphony" Ginza Nikon Salon (2015 Osaka Nikon Salon); 2015 "okinawan portraits" The Third Gallery Aya (Osaka), "A Grand Polyphony" Galerie Nord (Paris); 2016, "okinawan portraits 2012-2016" Art Gallery Artium (Fukuoka), "Once thinking, nothing before eyes" Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino(Yokohama); 2017 "OUTREMER / Ultramarine" Atsukobarouh (Tokyo); 2018 "zkop: a blessing in disguise" Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix(London); 2019 "home work"The Third Gallery Aya(Osaka); 2021 "The Inside of Life" SAI(Tokyo); 2022 "RECORDry"(Nagoya) etc.

Major group exhibitions include 2016 "Roppongi Crossing :My Body, Your Voice" Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), "Body / Play / Politics" Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa); 2017 "Nissan Art Award 2017" BankART Studio NYK (Kanagawa); 2019 "Oh! Matsuri ★ Goto Showa / Heisei Heroes and People in the Japanese Contemporary Art" Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Hyogo) ; 2019 "ARTISTS TODAY" Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum(okinawa) "Reborn-Art Festival" Ishinomaki (Miyagi); 2022 "Aichi Triennale" Tokoname(Aichi) etc.

Photo books include, "Okinawan portraits 2010-2012", "A Grand Polyphony", "adrenamix", "okinawan portraits 2012-2016","The Inside of Life" (all published by AKAAKA Art Publishing, Inc.), and "CAMP" (published by SLANT).

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金サジ『物語』       Book Design：佐々木暁       発行：赤々舎   Size： H320mm × W257mm   Page：120 pages   Binding：Hardcover(codex)   Published in December 2022   ISBN：978-4-86541-161-4	¥ 5,500＋tax  国内送料無料！ 【国内／Domestic Shipping】  お支払い方法は、銀行振込、郵便振替、 クレジットカード支払い、PayPal、PayPay よりお選び頂けます。 【海外／International Shipping】 ＊ Please choose your area from the two below    　　　 Book + Asia shipping ¥9,700 JPY Book + World shipping ¥11,650 JPY

Story  이야기

Kim Sajik  김사직

"In Story, Kim Sajik takes us on a mythical journey through the soul. Like the androgynous child muse figure whose gaze meets ours at the beginning and end of this collection of photographs, it is as if the artist herself is a trickster who stands at the edge of another dimension and beckons us in. In the mythology of all world cultures, a trickster is a figure who can cross boundaries and travel between dimensions. Here, she bends the rules and the established order of dominant narratives in order to dive deeply into important questions about identity, hybridity, gender, and existence.

As a third-generation Korean immigrant to Japan (Zainichi Korean), Kim uses her art to address the intersecting traumas of colonialism, war, cultural displacement, and subjugation. This is an alternate dream universe, inflected with the "stories" of intergenerational wisdom and experience passed from mothers to daughters, through waves of Korean migration to Japan; yet it is also a surreal and often playful depiction of universal themes that speak to the shared, global human experience of survival and resilience in the face of unspeakable violence. Though there are obvious hints of Korean iconography in her work, her imagery is in fact an elaborately imagined cosmos of hybridity hewn from the visions of her dreams. Even the clothing and adornments worn by the figures in these images are neither traditionally "Korean" nor belong to any ethnic group; they are entirely the creation of the artist. Like the collective unconscious about which Jung wrote extensively, there is an archetypal nature to these images that traces the mysteries of birth, life, light, darkness, death, and rebirth. But in some ways, Story is a self-portrait of the artist herself, a personal dream world in which pine trees speak of omens and earthquakes are the outcome of the earth and the sky making love.

In this other dimension, our earth has emerged from a violent disturbance in the proverbial timeless cosmic cycle of egg versus chicken. The world has spilled from the neck of this decapitated chicken, and the land, puckered with inflamed wounds, is a vast lava field, bleeding like exposed viscera. A great eternal pine tree towers over this planet, her branches resembling human limbs and bones, passing wisdom from generation to generation, auspicious pinecones exploding and spawning, planting seeds for more life. Animal and plant deities guard over this abundant planet. A womb, hewn of bark and feathers, comes into view--merging of sky and earth. Two female twins are born to a woman who prays for children deep in a forest. They are blessed by sanshin harumoni, the grandmotherly guardian goddesses of childbirth, and watched over by natural spirits, but also haunted by evil ogres. In two mirror-image self-portraits of the artist, we watch how these twins each grow up into young women whose worlds contradict--torn apart by the colonial violence of patriarchal power on one hand and the maternal, primordial forces of nature on the other. Citing Renaissance-era paintings of the biblical battle between Cain and Abel, the artist portrays the brutal struggle between these sisters as a representation of her own intergenerational identity struggle between Korea and Japan [...]

Yet, this mythical journey leads beyond death and towards rebirth, through song and celebration, through rituals of new beginnings. For the artist, the boat that carries the soul to another realm is not just a vehicle but a companion who walks with the dead. And from the shells of myriad cicadas, a lotus flower breaks through the surface, in an allusion to the endless Buddhist cycle of samsara.  [...]

Inspired not only by traveling and encountering fairy tales passed down from elders, many of these scenes were imagined from Kim's own sense of embodied knowledge gleaned from rehearsing traditional Korean dances that have been reinterpreted by successive generations of Zainichi Korean immigrant communities in Japan. She celebrates the body in all its rawness, honoring women's bodies' deep links to land and nature, as agents of creation. As a dancer, she recuperates in her own body the memory of previous generations while also embracing the shifts, ruptures, and transformations that have come about through trauma and contradictory contexts. Her photographs, many of which are self-portraits of her own body, celebrate the complexity of these postcolonial identities, not shying away from the brutal wounds of war and colonial subjugation, and the ensuing sense of disorientation and displacement. [...]

Emphasizing the power of women, the male protagonists who appear in Story are faceless, with the exception of those who are dead or social outcasts. The figure of the man who has beheaded the cosmic chicken, the holy man who imposes his religion, the groom who marries one of the twins, the invading colonist who sits proudly with his rifle upon the skin of a slain tiger--each of these characters and many others have their faces obscured from view. Most conventional nationalistic histories around the world, especially those of colonization and war, highlight only the names and faces of male heroes. By exposing the struggles and contributions of women, Kim reverses this erasure and calls attention to matrilineal heritage and continuity. She also shows how in many ways, the patriarchal violence carried out by men--such as Japanese imperial military atrocities and harsh, racist colonial rule--was often carried out by "faceless" actors who were never held accountable for their crimes. Rather than blame all men for these traumatic trespasses, Kim shows how the ideology of gender itself can result in the perpetuation of harm. [...]

Story is a ceremonial dimension that attempts to soothe the wounds of colonialism and recuperate stolen memories and roots. As Kim Sajik herself points out, rituals are liminal moments when unexpected, even absurd events take place, and yet we fully accept these otherworldly experiences without even really understanding what has just taken place. Shamanistic rituals often entail puzzling, enigmatic elements that remove us from our everyday realities and allow us to think in new and refreshing ways. By invoking the magical space of ritual and shamanism, the artist thus infuses fresh "trickster energy" into the painful, heavy memories borne by the Korean diaspora of Japan, lighting up the darkness, reclaiming history, and opening up new possibilities for healing."

Extracted from the text "Tricksters and Trauma"　

 Greg Dvorakr　

（Professor of Pacific and Asian history and gender studies, Waseda University）

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金サジ「『物語』シリーズより 山に歩む舟」  会期：2022年10月27日（木） 〜11月14日（月） 時間：13:00〜20:00（土日11:00〜19:00 水休） 会場：PURPLE（京都市中京区式阿弥町122-1 3F） 入場：500円 文化庁「ARTS for the future! 2」補助対象事業 Related Reviews 金サジ「物語」シリーズより：山に歩む舟 当事者性ということ（REALKYOTO FORUM レビュー）｜文：清水 穣 金サジ「物語」シリーズより：山に歩む舟（artscape レビュー）｜文：高嶋慈

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Artist Information 

金サジ 

自身のコリアンディアスポラの身体的、精神的アイデンティティの「揺らぎ」をきっかけとして活動をはじめる。創作物語を演出写真の技法を用いて作品を制作。写真家として活動しながら、活動の一環として、韓国舞踊家、金一志の下に師事。韓国伝統芸能を学びながら、ディアスポラに代々継承されていく歴史・民族精神のトラウマから生まれる新たな可能性を探っている。現在、ロシアのサハリンのリサーチを日本サハリン協会等の協力を得ながら継続中。2020年度より多様なメンバーと映像作品「AMA~ウィルスとおよぐ~」を完成に向けて奮闘制作中。2016年度キヤノン写真新世紀グランプリ、令和3年度京都府文化賞奨励賞受賞。

Kim Sajik

Born in Kyoto. The swaying her own Korean diaspora's physical and mental identity have driven her to work. she creates works using the technique of staged photography of her creative narratives.  As part of artist's activities, she studied under the Korean Butoh dancer, Kim Iru Chi. While studying traditional Korean performing arts, she is exploring new possibilities that arise from the trauma of historical and ethnic spirituality passed down from generation to generation in the diaspora.she recived the Grand Prize in 2016 Canon's New Cosmos of Photography competition and 2021Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Prize,Encouragement Award.

2014 "Busan Biennale 2014 Special Exhibition Asian Curatorial" (Busan,Korea)

2016 "Art Court Frontier 2016 #14", Art court gallery (Osaka,Japan)

2017 "the Night of a Full Moon, a Man Builds a Grave and a Woman Eats Pinecones." TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUM (Tokyo,Japan)

2017 "showcase #6 "Storytelling" curated by minoru shimizu" eN arts (Kyoto,Japan)

2017 "Ascending Art Annual Vol.1「Shapes and Figures」"Spiral(Tokyo,Japan),WACOAL STUDYHALL (Kyoto,Japan)

 

畠山直哉『陸前高田市東日本大震災遺構』       Book Design：大西正一       発行：赤々舎   Size： H295mm × W208mm   Page：160 pages   Binding：Softcover   Published in November 2022   ISBN：978-4-86541-152-2	¥ 3,500＋tax  国内送料無料！ 【国内／Domestic Shipping】  お支払い方法は、銀行振込、郵便振替、 クレジットカード支払い、PayPal、PayPay よりお選び頂けます。 【海外／International Shipping】 ＊ Please choose your area from the two below    　　　 Book + Asia shipping ¥6,650 JPY Book + World shipping ¥7,900 JPY

Memorial Ruins of 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Rikuzentakata 

Naoya Hatakeyama

In the summer of 2020, Naoya Hatakeyama was commissioned by the city hall of his hometown, Rikuzentakata City, to photograph the Memorial Ruins of 2011 Tohoku Earthquake at four locations in Rikuzentakata, including "Former Michi no Eki Takata-Matsubara (Tapic 45)", "Rikuzentakata Municipal Kesen Junior High School"," Shimojuku Settlement Promotion Housing Building1", and "Rikuzentakata Youth Hostel". 

The city will be preserving and maintaining these ruins with the plan that they will be open to the public, but at the time these photographs were taken with a digital camera, the interior of the buildings were so tightly buried with soil and they looked exactly the same as 10 years ago, when  2011 Tohoku Earthquake struck. 

4 remains that will be preserved and maintained in the near future, and these photographs taken before then. What kind of scenery will each memorials lead to in the overall time, and How will they open the door that is between the consciousness and memories held by people?

These photos taken 10 years after 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, are quietly placed as a kind of bulletin to unknowable in the overall time.

"Kesen Junior High School, a public school located on the west bank of the mouth of the Kesen River looking out on Hirota Bay, was founded in 1947 after the war ended as one of a group that included two elementary schools in the neighborhood.

Two years later in 1949, the schools were merged and Kesen Junior High School was opened in this location. When the Chile earthquake and tsunami occurred in 1960, the embankment of the Kesen River failed to prevent overflow so that the first floor of the two-story wooden school building was reportedly flooded to a height of 85 centimeters. The next year in 1961, the city's first indoor gymnasium equipped with the latest gymnastics equipment was completed. Olympic gymnasts visited the gymnasium to give exemplary gymnastic performances, and it was also used for shows put on by famous singers. Around that time, the student body numbered over three hundred. Much later in 1981, a three-story reinforced concrete school building was constructed. The school was inundated by the tsunami caused by the Tohoku Earthquake which rose so high that it covered the roof of the building and swept the gymnasium away. Fortunately, all of the 86 students attending chorus practice in the gymnasium at the time quickly evacuated safely to the high ground nearby. After the earthquake disaster another school building in the city, Yahagi Junior High School, which had been closed, was put into use so that the students could continue their schooling. In 2018, Kesen Junior High School rung down the curtain on its 71-year history when it was merged with Rikuzentakata Municipal Daiichi Junior High School.

Kesen Junior High School is the alma mater of the photographer of this photograph collection."

（Quoted from the text "Rikuzentakata Municipal Kesen Junior High School" by Naoya Hatakeyama）

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企画展「Taiza, Tango」  会期：2022年12月10日〜12月25日 時間：11:00〜15:00（最終入場14:30、土日休） 会場：丗｜SEI（京都市左京区） 入場：1,000円  主催：文化庁、NPO法人TOMORROW  文化庁「ARTS for the future! 2」補助対象事業 写真家・畠山直哉が京都・京丹後を訪れ出会った自然と風景の記録と共に、同地で生み出された生産物を紹介する展示

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Artist Information 

畠山直哉

写真家。1958年岩手県陸前高田市生まれ。筑波大学芸術専門学にて戦後前衛芸術集団「実験工房」のメンバーであった大辻清司や山口勝弘に薫陶を受ける。その後、東京を拠点に活動を行い、自然・都市・写真のかかわり合いに主眼をおいた一連の作品を制作する。

石灰石鉱山の連作と、東京の建築空間や水路を被写体にした作品群で注目を集め、1997年第22回木村伊兵衛写真賞、2001年第42回毎日芸術賞、2012年芸術選奨文部科学大臣賞などを受賞。国内外で個展、グループ展に多数参加し、2001年にはヴェニス・ビエンナーレ日本代表の一人に選出されている。また2012年には、ヴェニス・ビエンナーレ国際建築展の日本館展示に参加し、館はその年の金獅子賞を受賞した。

作品はTATE（ロンドン）、MoMA（ニューヨーク）、東京国立近代美術館をはじめとする、主要都市の美術館に収蔵されている。

Naoya Hatakeyama

born in 1958 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji, completed graduate studies at Tsukuba University in 1984. Since then, Hatakeyama has been based in Tokyo, a city which has served as a model from which he has developed a body of work concerned largely with the relationship between nature, the city and photography. In addition to his participation in numerous solo and group exhibitions, Hatakeyama's photographs are found in public collections including the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur; la Maison EuropEéenne de la Photographie, Paris; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

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