amanaTIGP is pleased to present "An ensuing evanescence" an exhibition by Toshiya Murakoshi from November 20 to December 18, 2021. The exhibition marks the artist's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery since his previous showing three years ago, and features a selection of seven panoramic works photographed between 2012 and 2021.
Murakoshi has been visiting various locations in the Fukushima Prefecture since 2001. After the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, he has focused on photographing the landscapes of his hometown of Sukagawa, asking himself the question of "what is seen and cannot be seen, and what it means to try and see and not see."
In his past solo exhibition "A gradual thaw", Murakoshi presented a selection of panoramic works through which he conveyed the thoughts and emotions he had felt when photographing the disaster-stricken areas of Fukushima in the wake of the earthquake. Five years since then, his attitude of gazing at the sea from an unchanged perspective that eliminates all intent and feasance, seemingly detaches his work from the "language" that is born through experience and encounters with various incidents, and entrusts the viewer with means of perceiving the landscapes of Fukushima as that which capture a single reality.Please enjoy.
Photo :Toshiya Murakoshi, "An ensuing evanescence", Mar 2021, Gelatin silver print © Toshiya Murakoshi
| Event period |
Saturday, November 20 to Saturday, December 18 |
|---|---|
| Time | 12:00 ー 18:00 |
| Closed | Sundays, Mondays, and Holidays |
| Venue | amanaTIGP |
Profile
Toshiya Murakoshi
Toshiya Murakoshi was born in 1980 in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture. He graduated from Nippon Photography Institute in 2003. In 2001 he started engaging with his hometown of Fukushima as the central subject of his practice. Since 2006, he has been based in Tokyo and Fukushima, photographing the landscapes of his hometown as if to trace his own childhood memories of the time he had spent there. Since 2011, he has focused on the documentary nature of photographs, continuing to produce images that attempt to capture from within the serene yet powerful landscapes, the various changes and contradictions of the scenery as well as people's visual perception. In 2009, he established the gallery "TAP" in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo. His solo exhibitions include "timelessness" at Konica Minolta Plaza (Tokyo, 2008), "uncertain" at Shinjuku Nikon Salon (Tokyo, 2009), "kusa wo fumuoto [sound of stepping on grass]" at Fukushima Airport (Fukushima, 2012), "Burn After Seeing" at Kichijoji Art Museum, Musashino City (Tokyo, 2014), "From rainy days to an eventual saturarion" at CASE TOKYO (Tokyo, 2018), and "Blood Needle" at Sukagawa Civil Exchange Center (Fukushima, 2019). He is the recipient of the Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer's Award (2011) and the Sagamihara Photograph New Face Incentive Award (2015). His works are included in the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima Museum, and Sagamihara City.