Exhibition/event has ended.
Keiko Nomura "Naked Flowers"
Fugensha
Finished
SHARE
Artists
Keiko Nomura
Keiko Nomura, a photographer born in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, has been based in Okinawa since 2020. After graduating from Osaka Visual Arts School, she went to the United States to study photography in Los Angeles and Santa Fe. Since publishing her first photo book "Deep South" (Little More) in 1999, Nomura's emotional expressions, capturing her senses, memories, and emotions through portraits of women and landscapes such as cities, skies, seas, and mountains, have been highly acclaimed. In 2019, she won the Hayashi Tadayoshi Photography Award for her photo book "Otari-Pristine Peaks: The Garden of Yama Rei," set in Otari Village, Shinshu.
This exhibition will feature approximately 30 works, focusing on nude portraits taken during artist residencies in Poland, Spain, and Taiwan from 2021 to 2023.
Nomura stayed in Poland twice, experiencing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic during her first residency in 2021 and witnessing the start of the war in neighboring Ukraine during her second visit in 2022, a time when refugees were visible everywhere. The results of this residency were published in the photo book "Melody of Light" (BWA Wrocław). In 2023, she stayed in northeastern Spain, sharing living and working spaces with artists from Israel and the Basque Country in the wilderness. Nomura says that through these years marked by pandemics and wars, she has come to recognize that there are everyday lives in each place through crossing the seas and experiencing interactions with people in various regions. The sunlight that equally shines on everything and the figures of people behaving freely like animals without wearing clothes in nature depicted in Nomura's photographs make borders and barriers such as conflicts, races, and cultures seem insignificant. Furthermore, Nomura's photographs, which liberate both the bodies and minds of her subjects, not only evoke a sense of humanity and the joy of communication through photography but also remind us of the pleasure of communication through photography.
In conjunction with this exhibition, a large-format zine titled "Naked Flowers," featuring works taken in Spain will be released privately.
This exhibition will feature approximately 30 works, focusing on nude portraits taken during artist residencies in Poland, Spain, and Taiwan from 2021 to 2023.
Nomura stayed in Poland twice, experiencing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic during her first residency in 2021 and witnessing the start of the war in neighboring Ukraine during her second visit in 2022, a time when refugees were visible everywhere. The results of this residency were published in the photo book "Melody of Light" (BWA Wrocław). In 2023, she stayed in northeastern Spain, sharing living and working spaces with artists from Israel and the Basque Country in the wilderness. Nomura says that through these years marked by pandemics and wars, she has come to recognize that there are everyday lives in each place through crossing the seas and experiencing interactions with people in various regions. The sunlight that equally shines on everything and the figures of people behaving freely like animals without wearing clothes in nature depicted in Nomura's photographs make borders and barriers such as conflicts, races, and cultures seem insignificant. Furthermore, Nomura's photographs, which liberate both the bodies and minds of her subjects, not only evoke a sense of humanity and the joy of communication through photography but also remind us of the pleasure of communication through photography.
In conjunction with this exhibition, a large-format zine titled "Naked Flowers," featuring works taken in Spain will be released privately.
Schedule | May 3 (Fri) 2024-May 26 (Sun) 2024 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception May 3 (Fri) 2024 15:00 - 17:00 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://fugensha.jp/events/240503nomura/ | ||||
| Venue | Fugensha https://fugensha.jp/about/eng.html | ||||
| Location | 5-3-12 Shimomeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0064 | ||||
| Access | 17 minute walk from the West exit of Meguro Station on the Tokyu Meguro, Namboku, Toei Mita or JR Yamanote line; From the West exit of JR Meguro Station, take the Tokyu bus and get off at Moto Keibajo Mae. The venue is 1 minute walk from there. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6264-3665 | ||||
| Related images | Click on the image to enlarge it |
Back to Articles
SHARE
No comments yet