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Photographer Sho Niiro has been expressing the state of contemporary cities and the people who live in them. In this exhibition, he compares the current cities we live in to virtual cities, and sums them up as "Petalopolis," a coined word that goes beyond "Megalopolis" and is combined with "peta," a larger unit than giga and tera.
Last April, when a state of emergency was declared due to COVID, Niiro saw a cluster of buildings in Ginza that were empty of people, and he felt as if they were modern ruins, giving him the illusion of a city of the future. The very nature of the strange feeling that made him think that a landscape from a different era existed in the same place. Niiro had a hunch that the landscape in front of his eyes now might be a glimpse of the urban landscape far in the future, and he began collecting fragments of an unreal "reality". The work depicts a glimpse of a contradictory city that is at once a contemporary city and a city of the future.
In addition to the "Petalopolis" collection, this exhibition will feature approximately 30 works from the new "Unsustainable" collection. His new work "Unsustainable" is a graphically composed series of extremely stretched urban landscapes of Tokyo. The critical look at Tokyo's future urban landscape proposed in "Petalopolis" is sublimated into an abstract visual expression that stretches vertically and unilaterally, suggesting the current state of the city as "unsustainable.”
In addition to the photo collections "Petalopolis" and "Unsustainable," the exhibition will feature "Tsukiji 0-kei," which was shot while working at a security company in Tsukiji Market, "Another Side," which was shot while working at a bookstore for seven years. A collection of past work will also be for sale, including "Peeling City," a collection of urban landscapes shot over a 10-year period from 2007, as if to chip away at the surface of a city undergoing rapid change.
Last April, when a state of emergency was declared due to COVID, Niiro saw a cluster of buildings in Ginza that were empty of people, and he felt as if they were modern ruins, giving him the illusion of a city of the future. The very nature of the strange feeling that made him think that a landscape from a different era existed in the same place. Niiro had a hunch that the landscape in front of his eyes now might be a glimpse of the urban landscape far in the future, and he began collecting fragments of an unreal "reality". The work depicts a glimpse of a contradictory city that is at once a contemporary city and a city of the future.
In addition to the "Petalopolis" collection, this exhibition will feature approximately 30 works from the new "Unsustainable" collection. His new work "Unsustainable" is a graphically composed series of extremely stretched urban landscapes of Tokyo. The critical look at Tokyo's future urban landscape proposed in "Petalopolis" is sublimated into an abstract visual expression that stretches vertically and unilaterally, suggesting the current state of the city as "unsustainable.”
In addition to the photo collections "Petalopolis" and "Unsustainable," the exhibition will feature "Tsukiji 0-kei," which was shot while working at a security company in Tsukiji Market, "Another Side," which was shot while working at a bookstore for seven years. A collection of past work will also be for sale, including "Peeling City," a collection of urban landscapes shot over a 10-year period from 2007, as if to chip away at the surface of a city undergoing rapid change.
Schedule | Apr 9 (Sat) 2022-Apr 26 (Tue) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://bookandsons.com/blog/petalopolis.php | ||||
| Venue | Book And Sons | ||||
| Location | 2-13-3 Takaban, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-0004 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from the West exit of Gakugei-daigaku Station on the Tokyu Toyoko line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6451-0845 | ||||
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