TAB Event - Masashi Okamoto "I will forget"

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At Art & River Bank
Media: Photography, Installation

Masashi Okamoto's most recent work, entitled "I will forget," is an installation consisting of books of photo catalogues, bound in colorful covers that might remind one of children's picture books. Each individual book is a collection of photos of the same place, and all the books compile snapshots of various parts of the world that the artist has visited. The photos that he casually took while traveling seem to 'murmur' what he experienced in each land he visited. These carefully-bound groups of photographic images allow viewers to sentimentally recall their fond feelings of traveling, while also allowing them to perceive the nostalgic feelings that the artist has for the experiences he went through in those places. But because the designs of the covers are so colorful and excessively pure, as if they were children's picture books, suspicions may gently arise within the minds of viewers. Okamoto might be purposefully pushing away such sentimentalism and nostalgia by considering those feelings to be childish. Okamoto's approach, which could be likened to "calming an infant," ends up conveying to the viewers a feeling of slight irritation.

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