2021.7.30 ー 9.13

Saori Nakamura “The point where time drafted”

In April, we announced our selection of three photographers who took part in DELTA’s Open Call for Submissions.

This exhibition, titled “The Point Where Time Drafted”, features the work of Saori Nakamura, one of the three photographers.

Saori Nakamura’s work combines photographs taken in the past with stones and driftwood that she collects near rivers or the sea. The driftwood and the stones have arrived in her hands through an entirely different course of time than the sceneries depicted in the photographs. Sometimes the stones or the driftwood are colored and resonate with the tones in the photographs. But even then, the insurmountable difference between their materiality results in feelings of discomfort, and the audience may find itself perplexed as to where within the artworks to fixate its gaze.

Nakamura has created an almost installation-like exhibition that allows the miragelike depth of her photographs spill out into the exhibition space.

Upon folding-screen like background photographs six meters in width, she placed photographs affixed with protruding driftwood or photographic prints taken of these works. Nakamura aimed for “unnaturalness” with her exhibition, but as we find ourselves quickly accepting these scenes as completely natural, we begin to realize our own unnatural nature.

 

Saori Nakamura
Saori Nakamura was born in Chiba Prefecture in Japan in 1985. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions such as “NTMY Exhibition” (61Note Gallery, Taipei / Kata Gallery, Tokyo, 2013) “Hungry Limited Edition” (tokyoarts gallery, Tokyo / ozasahayashi_project, Kyoto, 2015), “izumi” (maison de tabinosoraya, Niigata, 2020), “X” (Nagaoka City Art Center, Niigata, 2021) and many more.