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TITLEechoes
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SIZE / TIME1165 X 830 mm
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MATERIALC-print, mounted on aluminum
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YEAR2007
echoes
Engish text
When I first set out to capture the image that would become “echoes”, I gave myself ample time to carefully observe the people within my field of vision. As I mentally composed the frame, I became acutely aware of the great many individuals within my eyeshot, all of whom were engaged in different activities; many were standing still, others were in dynamic movement, and all were going about their own business, unaware of my presence. Initially, I concentrated primarily on the individual people in the frame. However, my focus soon expanded to include the larger group in which these individuals were enmeshed. My awareness of the image continued to evolve as I began to conceive of each individual as a single point from which an infinite array of links branch off in every direction to create a web of interconnectivity that breaks down the limitations of any one fixed standpoint in favor of a more fluid and ambiguous perspective. This topic has become one of the dominant themes that I explore in my works of photography. Through the properties of a static image, the shifting boundaries between the individual, the group, and the observer can be captured and the status of any single component of the image can be challenged by the unfixed and endlessly expanding sense of linked perspective that is revealed through echoes.
Japanese text
私の目の前にはたくさんの人が行き来していたり、立ち止まっていたりと各々が様々なことをしている。これらを見続けていると、はじめは個人一人一人のことが気になっていたのだけれど、人が集まるにつれて個人よりも集まってできた集合全体へと、私の目は奪われていった。 さらに人が集まってくる。集まれば集まるほど集合は大きくなる。その様子を見ていて私は、小さな輪が多方向へ大きくなっていくかのような印象を受けた。それはあたかも、どこまでもひろがり続けるものであるように感じられた。また、この人たちは偶然ここに居合わせたことで集合を構成し、私に集合として認識された。偶然であっても集合が形成されるものならば、その集合を構成している個は、他の場所、異なる時間に、また別の集合を形成するだろう。私は集合同士、構成する個同士、また集合と個に、何らかのつながりがあるように感じずにはいられなかった。このひろがりとつながりによって、今日は形成されるのではないだろうか。

installation view : at G27 in Zürich, Switzerland 2007