Takashi Arai

EXPOSED in a Hundred Suns

Jul 25 - Sep 20, 2014
Photo Gallery International

Takashi Arai

EXPOSED in a Hundred Suns

Jul 25 - Sep 20, 2014
Photo Gallery International

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Photo Gallery International is pleased to announce “EXPOSED in a Hundreds Suns” Takashi Arai’s first solo exhibition at our space, beginning July 25 and continuing through September 20, 2014.

 

Takashi Arai is an unique contemporary daguerreotypist, daguerreotype is the one of the oldest photographic process discovered in 1839. With this exhibition, we are showing the issues surround in nuclear theme that Arai has been exploring recently.

 

“Our generation has seen the world through comics, animations and movies about the aftermath of the nuclear disaster. Especially the environmental pollution in Kawasaki where I was grown up was nothing compared to what one is now. I have heard of the wail of urban ozone formation siren almost everyday and I have smelled a stale water of Tama river that was full of sludge from a factory. Even I was little kid, I thought of the world was toward end. 
For this reason, I feel and experience of déjà vu after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s accident.”
Even nuclear energy is discovered by human nature, however its phenomenon is too complex of issues to resolve by us. Arai is trying to question this matter through his work.
When we stand in front of his photographs, one can realize the art and beauty can challenge unresolved issues that we are facing now.