Instant Diary is a quasi-mechanical experiment where Komatsu recorded each day of 2020 with a Polaroid photograph and a short note. With its enigmatic presence, Komatsu questions the concept of a diary whether single photograph and a text could truly reflect one’s day.
Instant Diary (with original Polaroid set in an index card box)
Hiroko Komatsu
Book: 6 x 4.25 x 2.25 inch
Box of prints: 14.5 x 5.5 x 4.25 inch
Edition 1
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“I like to make my artist book based on something that already exists, rather than creating from zero. By altering the existing materials with my own photographs and drawings, I’m able to deconstruct the original meaning and apply another context. This process is similar to photography.” –Osamu Kanemura
Bird Talk
Osamu Kanemura
11 x 8 inch
Edition 1
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“The peculiar form of this book reminisces the concepts of Claude Levi-Strauss’s ‘Bricolage’ and Jacques Derrida’s ‘Grafting’. The Polaroid photographs taken by Kanemura are ‘grafted’ into a chopped and folded Bauhaus book, becoming ‘parasites’ that nourish from the existing book, as we call it a ‘host’” –Gen Umezu
Material Bricolage 4
Osamu Kanemura
5.75 x 4.25 x 2 inch
Edition 1
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Komatsu’s handmade books are the result of her painstaking labor and dedication to the tactile and the physical print. Using images of construction sites and waste materials as her subjects, Komatsu creates a space that confuses the line between construction and destruction.
Corrosion 3
Hiroko Komatsu
8.5 x 6 inch
24 pages
b&w printed on tracing paper
Edition 20
Photo 1-4: Corrosion 3
Photo 5: View from Komatsu’s process of making photogram prints for the cover (photo courtesy of the artist)
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
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A claustrophobic feeling emerges from Kanemura's collages and artist books, where photographs, texts, and printed matter propagated from the repository of materials that surrounds our daily lives are dismantled and rebuilt, creating a disorienting and endless loop of images.
Cannibalism Sugar Diet
Osamu Kanemura
13.5 x 10.5 x 2.5 inch
Edition 1
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
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We didn’t know what to think of it when @osamukanemura first showed us Bird Study, except for the fact that we couldn’t stop flipping the pages to find his mesmerizing intuition in every detail. This was the first of many artist books Kanemura created for his solo exhibition “Looper Syndicate” at dieFirma in 2021.
Bird Study
Osamu Kanemura
8.5 x 6 x 5 inch
Edition 1
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
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Book No.1 is the very first artist book @komatsu_hiroko hand-made in 2016. It consists of 40 b&w gelatin silver prints, bound with tape, wire and galvanized turnbuckle–materials that are used in her renown large scale installation.
Book No.1
Hiroko Komatsu
12 x 11 inch
40 plates, b&w
Edition 5
Photo 1-4: Book No.1
Photo 5,6: View from Komatsu’s solo exhibition “Sincerity Department Loyal Division” at dieFirma 2021.
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
#hirokokomatsu#japanesephotography#blackandwhitephotography#artistbook
New work by Miho Kajioka - on show now at PhotoLondon!
Fine art photographer Miho Kajioka creates ethereal, minimalist work that draws on the Japanese tradition of “wabi-sabi” – the appreciation of beauty in imperfection and transience, and the Zen/Taoist belief that the essence (true nature) of an object exists in the empty space inside and around it. Her photographic work grew out of a drawing practice, echoing photography’s literal etymology as a way of drawing with light. The empty spaces in her carefully exposed, toned and hand-finished silver gelatin prints are as important as the subjects that emerge from the delicate surfaces and invite the viewer to complete the picture through their own mind’s eye view.
Link in bio to see more, or find us on stand F12 @photolondonfair
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Miho Kajioka
Hand-toned silver gelatin prints
From €1,000 + VAT
All profits from Print Sales support @thephotographersgallery public programme
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