2023 / 4 / 19 (wed.) ‐ 5 / 20 (sat.)
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ミヅマアートギャラリーでは、4月19日(水)から、新津保建秀展「消え入りそうなほど 細かくて 微妙な」を開催いたします。
1968年東京生まれの新津保建秀は、映像制作をきっかけに独学で写真を習得し、ポートレートや風景、建築写真など数多くの仕事で活躍してきました。透明感のある独特の写真が多くの支持を得ている作家です。
その一方で、東日本大震災の直後より雑誌『思想地図β』(ゲンロン)と行った東北地方やウクライナでのドキュメンタリー撮影(2011-2013)をはじめ、さまざまな異なる分野の人たちとの協働によるプロジェクトにも携わっています。最近では複雑系科学・人工生命の研究者である池上高志氏、音楽家のevala氏らと共に体験型VRのインスタレーション作品に取り組むなど、その表現の幅を広げています。
また、写真家のキャリアと並行して、美術を研究するなかで、それまで取り組んでいた「風景」という対象と身体性について再考するなど、よりしなやかな眼差しを掴んできました。本展は新作を含むこの数年間の活動を凝縮した展覧会となります。
諏訪で見た焚き火、熊本の震災後に土砂崩れによってできた滝や逢魔時に見た空とそれを映す水面、そしてPhantomという名の超高速度カメラで捉えた火のゆらめきなど、今回展示する作品におさめられた風景や被写体はどこか異形で、⾒知らぬ風情を纏っています。新津保にとってもそれは何かもやっとしたもの、微かなものを掴むような感覚だったと⾔います。
新津保は自身の写真について、「被写体と対峙した際に、向こうとこちらの間を行き来し生まれる主観的な時間のなかで、微かに立ち上がる、目に見えないフォルムを眼差しているように感じる」と表現しています。それは現前と不在の間の儚くうつろうものを写真に留めるような感触に近いかもしれません。
普段、人物を撮影する際には、背後にある風景を人物に「被せる」ように撮る、という新津保ですが、今回は風景や被写体に人のような存在や気配を見出すとともに、図らずもそこに反応する自身の意識が被さります。実際にその写真からは、被写体を⽬の当たりにし反応する新津保の⾝体や⼼の機微、目には見えない「何か」の手触りを感じることができるでしょう。
最後に、本展のタイトル「消え入りそうなほど 細かくて 微妙な」とは、人工知能との対話において出てきた言葉とのこと。人間とは異なる存在から発せられたこの言葉は、ぎこちなくも新津保の写真を的確に示しているようにも感じます。ぜひ本展をご高覧いただけましたら幸いです。
Mizuma Art Gallery is pleased to announce To the point of disappearing, so fine, and so subtle, a solo exhibition by SHINTSUBO Kenshu beginning on April 19th, 2023.
Born in Tokyo in 1968, Shintsubo Kenshu studied photography on his own by starting out in filmmaking, and has since worked on several jobs including portraits, landscapes, and architectural photography. He is an artist who has gained a large following for his distinctive transparent visuals in his photographs. On the other hand, he has also been involved in collaborative projects with people from various different fields, such as the documentary filming in the Tohoku region and Chernobyl, Ukraine (2011-2013) conducted with the magazine “Thought Map (Shisou Chizu β)” by Genron, immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Recently, he has been expanding his range of expression by working on experiential VR installations with Ikegami Takashi, who is a researcher in complex systems science and artificial life, and with evala, who is a musician.
In parallel with his career as a photographer, he has also grasped a more flexible eye, reconsidering the subject of “landscape” and its physicality, which he had been working up until recent, while studying art. This exhibition will be a condensed version of his activities over the past several years, including several new works.
A bonfire that he saw in Suwa, a waterfall caused by a landslide after the earthquake in Kumamoto, the sky at nightfall and its reflection on the water, and the flickering of a fire captured by an ultra-high-speed camera called Phantom: the landscapes and subjects captured in the works in this exhibition are somehow peculiar and wear an unseenable atmosphere. For Shintsubo, it was something faint and subtle, a sensation he states, as if he was grasping at something that is physically not there.
Shintsubo describes his photographs as “When I encounter a subject, I feel as if I am seeing an invisible form that rises up faintly in the subjective time that is generated between me and the other side”. This may be similar to the feeling of capturing in a photograph the ephemeral and fleeting things between the present and the absent.
Usually, when photographing people, Shintsubo takes pictures as if he “covers” the people with the scenery in the background. This time, however, he finds a human-like presence or presence in the scenery and subjects, as well as his own consciousness, which reacts to the presence and “covers” these elements. Actually, from the photographs, we can feel the subtleties of Shintsubo’s body and senses, and the touch of “something” invisible to the eye, as he reacts to the subject.
Lastly, the title of this exhibition, “To the point of disappearing, so fine, and so subtle” is a phrase that came up in a dialogue with an artificial intelligence. These words, uttered from an existence different from that of a human being, seem to accurately describe Shintsubo’s photographs, albeit awkwardly. We hope you will enjoy this exhibition.
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