akemori hirokazu

akemori hirokazu

Time is a continuum of information. Photography reveals layers of imperceptible change, recording the transformation of flowers as equivalent units of information. In perceiving traces left within the unconscious, a sensibility emerges—one that reflects both a sensitivity toward what is gradually lost and the emotions embedded in accumulated time. Photography is not merely a means of documentation, but a quiet act of making visible the beauty that resides within layers of time.
Within the gaze directed at flowers, the accumulation and transformation of time overlap. Stillness and movement, life and death, record and imagination coexist within a single frame. The movement of the flower itself becomes an image, in which traces of existence and processes of change converge. The resulting image may also be understood as a portrait of the flower, reconsidering its existence through time.
By incorporating the compositional structures and qualities of light found in classical painting, this work reactivates the time once embedded in painted still lifes through contemporary photography. By visualizing “time as it is depicted,” it explores forms of beauty that exist in the interstitial space between painting and photography.

Artist Talk
Talk guest：勝又公仁彦　Kunihiko Katsumata
Date: May 3, 14:00–15:00
casse-noisette
Reservation: Not required