One cut and folded sheet of paper
+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.