Blanc/Black ©︎ Yuna Yagi
DELTA is pleased to present Yuna Yagi’s exhibition “Blanc/Black,” a series that explores the expression of emptiness through photography’s most essential tools: light and shadow.
The subject of her photographs is the Himukai-Daijingu Shrine in Kyoto and Hinosaki Shrine in Shimane, which are dedicated to Amaterasu, sun goddess and source of all light.
The exhibition juxtaposes photographs showing the shrine in brilliant blinding white with images of drifting black darkness, realized through multiple exposure photography and by repeatedly printing on the same sheet of paper.
According to Yagi, in the series “images of space and time emerge as memories in black and white, freed of all existence.” Her photographs let us feel as if we are looking at the intersection of existence and emptiness. We are able to discern the shrine’s outlines but not to follow it; we can sense its overlapping layers of time and space but not fully grasp them.
The origin of “blank” is “blanc,” the French for white. Both black and white refer to an absence of color, and the word blank signals a state of emptiness.
During this exhibition, the DELTA Special Edition of “Blanc/Black” will be on display and available for purchase.
【TALK EVENT】
Yuna Yagi（Artist）with Ozaki Tetsuya（Chief Editor of REALKYOTO FORUM）
November 7, Sunday 17:00ー18:00（1 Drink Order）
*This exhibition is a part of the satellite programs of Art Kyoto Collaboration.
