Daido Moriyama
dal 2/12/2002 al 4/1/2003
Segnalato da
2/12/2002
Daido Moriyama
White Cube, London
Daido Moriyama's Polaroid Polaroid is both a portrait and a process revealing the material condition of photography. The repetition or doubling of the word, like a song title or refrain, underscores the emphatic way in which Moriyama has attempted to create a likeness of his own living and working environment.
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Opening Tuesday 3rd December 6-8pm
"Speaking of another country, from childhood my territory of interest has been my love for printed things: posters, billboards, film stills, screen prints, and illustrations. In school I remembered only photographs or textbook illustrations. This is how I have lived day after day, not only in the real world, but also and much more in the copied world…Indeed I cannot be sure if I really saw the landscape which I now carry inside myself as my proto-image or if I just saw it printed. I have often regarded copies, the already copied world, as fragments of reality that I then copied once more in my photographs. This is because the people printed in dots often appear to be more vivid and direct to me than the people standing in front of me." (Daido Moriyama)
Daido Moriyama's Polaroid Polaroid is both a portrait and a process revealing the material condition of photography. The repetition or doubling of the word, like a song title or refrain, underscores the emphatic way in which Moriyama has attempted to create a likeness of his own living and working environment, not as a photographic reflection of the world but rather as a photographic registration of the flows and frequencies of the world itself.
This single work consists of thousands of instant photographs taken continuously over three consecutive days. Each of the Polaroids that make up this installation is a flat representation of reality, and it is clear they have been grabbed from the world in a fraction of a second. Moriyama then arranges these fleeting fragments of reality as if for a musical score, rendering the world of objects, images, textures and surfaces as a vast rhythmical sequence in which motifs and phrases gather, repeat, attenuate and disperse. This compositional method is characteristic of Moriyama's interest in exaggerating the way in which photography can fragment our perception of reality, offering multiple points of entry rather than a fixed and unilateral point of view.
Born in 1938, Daido Moriyama is recognized as one of Japan's pioneering postwar photographers whose work prefigures the strategies of much current cutting-edge photography. The diversity of moods, angles, and startling configurations that populate his photographic mages and remarkable books attests to more than thirty-five years at the forefront of the photographic medium.
Inside the White Cube will be open from Tuesday through Saturday, 10am - 6pm, with changing exhibitions opening on the first Tuesday of every month. Inside the White Cube can also be followed as a sub-site on the White Cube website: www.whitecube.com. For further information please contact Susannah Hyman or Honey Luard on 020 7930 5373.
Inside the White Cube is generously presented in association with Dornbracht, the German manufacturer of high-quality design fittings, accessories and interiors
White Cube, 48 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB