24x28 cm
80 pages
February 2020
80 pages
February 2020
[from the interview by David Campany]
Immediately after Zuma I made some rather straightforward photographs of the abandoned MGM Studios New York City back lot, in Culver City, Los Angeles.
These were in black and white. I then decided to try something entirely different and around 1980 I started a body of work about things you can’t photograph: Gravity, Magnetism, which way water drains, and the things I see when I press my eyes with the palms of my hands.
All of these images required the construction of some kind of visual metaphor.
“We turned off the highway and crossed the Mapocho River, and I finally saw the city, now completely covered in graffiti, like an open book, polyphonic, aggressive, miraculously legible. Like a book where everyone had underlined a different passage.”
One cut and folded sheet of paper
+2 Booklets
149x194mm
74 Pages
+2 Booklets
149x194mm
74 Pages
In 2015, French artist Thomas Sauvin acquired an album produced in the
early 1980s by an unknown Shanghai University photography student. The album
comprises original negatives, silver prints, manuscript comments from an
anonymous professor, and shows the student’s diligence in mastering the rules
applying to the conventional portrait. This volume was given a second life
through the expert hands of Kensuke Koike, a Japanese artist based in Venice
whose practice combines collage and found photography.
The
series, “No More, No Less”, born from the encounter between Koike and Sauvin, includes
new silver prints made from the album’s original negatives. These prints were
then submitted to Koike’s sharp imagination, who, with a simple blade and
adhesive tape, deconstructs and reinvents the images. However, these purely
manual interventions all respect one single formal rule: nothing is
removed, nothing is added, “No More, No Less”. In such a context that blends
freedom and constraint, Koike and Sauvin meticulously explore the possibilities
of an image only made up of itself.
Cover Design
Slipcase hotfoil printed
February 2019
Slipcase hotfoil printed
February 2019
