■GALLERY KOGURE NEW YORK (closed) ■2016.10.1 – 10.26 ■11:00 – 18:00 ■Closed on Sunday and Monday
GALLERY KOGURE NEW YORK is pleased to announce solo exhibition of Tomohide Ikeya.
Tomohide Ikeya, a photographer who approaches the essence of life through water. This time, by photographing humans struck by intense waves, he expresses how humans lose their age, sex, and titles and become part nature. Glass is settled in a mosaic pattern on plaster and on prints. Although they are photographs, each of them in this exhibition is unique.
GALLERY KOGURE
The boundary between nature and humans which is visualized by the splashes of waves.
There lies an existence called a human at the water’s edge in the depth of only 5 inches. Even a feeling of weariness resulting from resistance to nature and helplessness of being swallowed by waves is visible there.
Waves swallow humans of any kind. People are lying like debris on the water’s edge. Waves strip people of titles such as statuses, sexes, ages, and treat humans as obstructions of the flow of nature.
But at the same time, the undeniable fact remains that humanity is part of nature.
Fusion and isolation. How can we overcome the contradiction between them?
“WAVE” raises a doubt about the relationship between nature and humanity by photographing people swallowed by waves and the boundary between those waves and humans.