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Yoshinori Marui "Along the Coastline – from Cape Kyan to Mabuni, Okinawa"
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Yoshinori Marui
Yoshinori Marui has been walking in many places in Japan with a large format camera since around 2000 in an attempt to take a second look at his country "Japan" with his own eyes. Marui says, "This is the beginning of revising my image of the world." There is one place special to Marui among the places he visited, Okinawa. Japan's southernmost prefecture had a tumultuous history from the ancient times through World War II, and still has delicate complex issues including the U.S. military base. Marui sees Okinawa as playing the important role of connecting Japan between the modern, contemporary and present.
There is a complex terrain formed by coral at the coastline from Cape Kyan to Mabuni in the south of Kyan peninsula in Okinawa. Marui walks the coastline and continues to capture the surface of coastline, as if he traces the terrain itself, where signs of people at the mercy of history remain. As the tide comes and goes, the coastline where the logic of the strong and the weak surrounding Okinawa was knotted, complicated and deposited, sweeps away in front of Marui.
Approximately 30 chromogenic prints are shown at this exhibition.
There is a complex terrain formed by coral at the coastline from Cape Kyan to Mabuni in the south of Kyan peninsula in Okinawa. Marui walks the coastline and continues to capture the surface of coastline, as if he traces the terrain itself, where signs of people at the mercy of history remain. As the tide comes and goes, the coastline where the logic of the strong and the weak surrounding Okinawa was knotted, complicated and deposited, sweeps away in front of Marui.
Approximately 30 chromogenic prints are shown at this exhibition.
Schedule | Feb 15 (Fri) 2008-Mar 19 (Wed) 2008 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.pgi.ac/content/view/171/1/lang,en/ | ||||
| Venue | PGI http://www.pgi.ac/index.php?lang=en | ||||
| Location | 3F TKB Bldg., 2-3-4 Higashi-azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044 | ||||
| Access | 4 minute walk from the Nakanohashi exit of Akabanebashi Station on the Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 6 at Azabu-juban Station on the Namboku or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 1 at Kamiyacho Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5114-7935 | ||||
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