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Naoki Ishikawa "Momentum"
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Naoki Ishikawa
This exhibition, which coincides with the Marebito exhibition by the same artist at AmanaTIGP, will present 11 photographs from Naoki Ishikawa's new Momentum series, featuring adolescents practicing for competition diving.
In the summer of 2021 Ishikawa visited the Kagawa Synthesis Swimming Pool in Takamatsu where he photographed the local young people practicing diving on an outdoor diving board. Using the same medium-format camera he had used during his travels to the north and south poles, he captured the ever-changing light during the course of the day—from the gradually strengthening light of early morning, through the bright sunshine of afternoon and into the evening as the sun gradually disappeared. The multiple, varied light beams reflect off the color negative film to fill the entire picture. The midsummer sky and the surface of the water in the swimming pool overflow with rich tones.
Of all the various sports that exist, diving has to take the shortest time; the athletes compete with each other for the beauty of their performances, spinning and twisting through the air before entering the water with the least possible splash. Ishikawa confronts these subjects, in which the result is decided within approximately two seconds, using the medium of photography, which captures an image in the split second that the shutter is released. He found that photographing these young people as they practiced, diving into the pool only to climb back up to the diving board to repeat the process, created a kind of harmonized space in which the sound of bodies hitting the water, alternated with that of the shutter being released.
The title of both the series and this exhibition refers to physical movement, such as inertia or impetus, while the word “moment” refers to temporal movement. Both words have their roots in the Latin term, “movimentum,” meaning movement and in etymological terms, they form what is known as a doublet. As if resonating with the young divers who concentrate their physical actions into the two-second duration of their dive, Ishikawa captures their movements using a variety of shutter speeds. The differences in exposure produce a variety of expression in his photographs, the slightest movements being captured as blurring while movements indiscernible to the naked eye are captured as if the subject were stationary. In the same way that the words “momentum” and “moment” share a common root, by cutting out “moments” of varying length and making them visible, Ishikawa’s photographs approach the essence of the medium’s ability to encapsulate various kinds of “momentum.”
In the summer of 2021 Ishikawa visited the Kagawa Synthesis Swimming Pool in Takamatsu where he photographed the local young people practicing diving on an outdoor diving board. Using the same medium-format camera he had used during his travels to the north and south poles, he captured the ever-changing light during the course of the day—from the gradually strengthening light of early morning, through the bright sunshine of afternoon and into the evening as the sun gradually disappeared. The multiple, varied light beams reflect off the color negative film to fill the entire picture. The midsummer sky and the surface of the water in the swimming pool overflow with rich tones.
Of all the various sports that exist, diving has to take the shortest time; the athletes compete with each other for the beauty of their performances, spinning and twisting through the air before entering the water with the least possible splash. Ishikawa confronts these subjects, in which the result is decided within approximately two seconds, using the medium of photography, which captures an image in the split second that the shutter is released. He found that photographing these young people as they practiced, diving into the pool only to climb back up to the diving board to repeat the process, created a kind of harmonized space in which the sound of bodies hitting the water, alternated with that of the shutter being released.
The title of both the series and this exhibition refers to physical movement, such as inertia or impetus, while the word “moment” refers to temporal movement. Both words have their roots in the Latin term, “movimentum,” meaning movement and in etymological terms, they form what is known as a doublet. As if resonating with the young divers who concentrate their physical actions into the two-second duration of their dive, Ishikawa captures their movements using a variety of shutter speeds. The differences in exposure produce a variety of expression in his photographs, the slightest movements being captured as blurring while movements indiscernible to the naked eye are captured as if the subject were stationary. In the same way that the words “momentum” and “moment” share a common root, by cutting out “moments” of varying length and making them visible, Ishikawa’s photographs approach the essence of the medium’s ability to encapsulate various kinds of “momentum.”
Schedule | Feb 12 (Sat) 2022-Mar 12 (Sat) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/archives/31563/ | ||||
| Venue | Taka Ishii Gallery http://www.takaishiigallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | 3F Complex665, 6-5-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit 1b at Roppongi Station on the Hbiya or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 7 at Azabu-juban Station on the Nanboku or Toei Oedo line, 11 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6434-7010 | ||||
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