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  @Hiroyuki Takenouchi

The Japanese photographer Hiroyuki Takenouchi (b. 1982 in Tokyo) began his career after graduating from Nihon University of the Art’s Graduate Institute of Photography in 2008. He has received an Honorable Mention at the New Cosmos of Photography Awards in 2008 and the Special Award at the 2009 Shiogama Photo Festival. His exhibitions to date include Liberty City (P.G.I.), Crow (P.G.I.), Things will get better over time (Gallery Trax), The Fourth Wall (PGI) and Distance and Depth (Studio Staff Only).

       Whether taking photos of cityscapes, trees and flowers in nature, daily life or dear friends, Takenouchi challenges society’s unspoken rules and strives to reveal the hidden nature of his subjects. Confronting loneliness, alienation and oft-overlooked actions, his photography is an investigation into the nuances of diversity and identity. With his unique perspective and quiet, observational gaze, Takenouchi lets us glimpse at the beauty of equal existences.

This exhibition features images from Takenouchi’s new series Warp and Woof, whose title alludes to the basic building blocks of weaving fabric and, by extension, the foundation of the world.

       Following an experience of culture shock after meeting a group of people whose way of life was fundamentally different from his own, Takenouchi began to expand the perspective of his work.

       In his previous series, Takenouchi focused on connections between isolated motifs of nature, living beings or artificial objects captured in portraits and landscapes. In The Fourth Wall, for example, he suggested an equivalence between his subjects (people, landscapes, etc.) by presenting them in portrait format. In Warp and Woof, on the other hand, Takenouchi is concerned with broadening one’s viewpoint as well as the ‘perhaps overlooked events and flow of time that take place at the periphery’ of one’s vision. In this way, Takenouchi’s expression has grown to include the continuity of everything as one of its themes, an aspect that has not been present in his work until now. Instead of offering a vague juxtaposition of identical places and moments, Warp and Woof further reveals a range of assumptions, illusions and shifts in perspective by including a wider spectrum of scenes. Rather than a purely visual experience, Warp and Woof is presented as a combination of image and sound.

       The exhibition consists of approximately 24 archival pigment prints.

Warp and Woof

I experienced a kind of culture shock when I visited a hippie commune for a photo shoot. It was a world with customs, attitudes and lifestyles completely different from what I had known in my own life.

At night, deep in the mountains, my editor and I spoke about our bewilderment. She said, ‘Doesn’t it feel as though the map of your mind expands when you encounter a different world like this?’, and upon hearing it phrased that way, something important clicked into place for me.

Since then, I have started to photograph landscapes with my usual telephoto lens, in an attempt to pay attention not only to the sceneries around me but also to the world to which they belong.

Juxtaposing different landscapes from similar perspectives and similar landscapes from different perspectives, I compose my own map of the mind.

Hiroyuki Takenouchi

English translation by Robert Zetzsche

Music: Fumitake Tamura

By subtly shifting and modifying the periodic clusters of sound that we perceive as rhythm, Fumitake Tamura creates music that embraces ambiguity and discomfort. His deep interest in the fundamentals of rhythm has led to numerous collaborations with artists, particularly from the United States, in genres ranging from jazz to hip-hop. As a member of the project FR/BLCK/PR headed by Los Angeles-based rapper Busdriver, Tamura produced the album I Don’t Write Rhymes, I Write Code and played live shows at the Greek Theater in LA. In 2023, he joined Grammy Award-winning engineer Daddy Kev as a co-host for the music event Scenario. In addition to his production work on various albums, Tamura also created the music for Hiraki Sawa’s video artwork Lenticular(2014, 2021) and produced the beats for 5lack’s song DNS (from the album Keshiki).