Osamu Kanemura began creating photographic work in the early 1990s, and since being selected for the Rotterdam Photo Biennale in 1992 and New Photography 12, a special feature on emerging artists at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1996, he has been actively showing his work both in Japan and abroad. In recent years, he has been expanding his creative range outside the boundaries of conventional media such as video, collage, art books, and drawings.
In this exhibition, Kanemura will present a video installation consisting of four videos of urban landscapes projected onto the gallery space. The images of the city, which are played back at high speed and overlap each other in layers, become one in the space, making it difficult to capture a single scene, but they are an endless cycle of birth, proliferation, attraction, and destruction that occurs daily under the surface of the city. As Kanemura says, "I wonder if a shot is simply a reproduction of a photograph, or if it exists as a construction of the viewer's memory, which can be interpreted in various ways by the viewer.” In this exhibition, he will also present new collages and drawings.
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