An exhibition "Hikari no Syashin (ひかりの写真) " had been held
in september 2008 at an art space called graffiti in
Kochi (高知) in Japan.
The title means "Photography of light"
in japanese. it may includes grammatically an overlap when I say it
in English, because the word "Photography" itself originally
means "drawing
with light". In japanese however it doesn't.
The medium photography has become one of the most important medium
of journalism. it's now believed to tell you the truth of our
world. The
word literally means "recoding truth" in japanese, while
it just describes only fundamental elements of the technic in european
languages.
So my idea about this exhibition was to show the contrast between the
word "写真 Syashin"(Photography) and actual pictures which
look completely different from reality, but without any digital manipulation.
For me it's also important to hold such exhibition in my small home
town. Japanese society is highly centralized, not only politically
but also econommically and culturally. The social structure must be
changed, otherwise Tokyo will be huger and huger and won't work anymore.
What I can do now is very small thing to change the cultural situation,
because I'm not there but studying in berlin. But there are people
who are trying to, so I am. I will keep doing it in any case.
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