Yoshiyuki Okuyama - Windows
Akaaka Art Publishing, ISBN 9784865411713,
Hb, 752 pgs, 19 x 21cm
Language: Japanese & English
Acqn. 33571
Awaiting stock
£110.00
Hb, 752 pgs, 19 x 21cm
Language: Japanese & English
Acqn. 33571
Awaiting stock
£110.00
This book consists of an extensive number of approximately 100,000 photographs and was taken over a period of two and a half years from April 2020 to November 2022 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tokyo is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, and when looking at each home in its
crowded neighbourhoods, one notices that many windows are fitted with opaque sheets of glass such as figured glass and what is commonly referred to as frosted glass. The scenery observed through the vertical and horizontal screens manifest as landscape paintings that convey the outside scenery to the closed inner space. At the same time, for the outside world, it potentially acts as a portrait of sorts that depicts the lives of people who live in the depths of these inorganic square frames. The artist describes windows, considerably a product of contradiction that satisfies the conflicting desires of human beings who wish to enjoy the benefits of the outdoors while seeking an indoor environment, as "also fulfilling the role of a 'juncture' that facilitates a connection between each individual 'person' and 'society What underlies Okuyama' s works, regardless of their incentive or purpose, is his unique visual expression that treats the contradictions and multifacetedness accompanying all phenomena as themes for production, and discerns the essence of photography in the numerous possibilities that fluctuate before and after the moment that is captured.