Homma Takashi: Revolution 9
Homma Takashi received the 24th Kimura Ihei Award for his photo book Tokyo Suburbia (published by Korinsha) in 1999. The work was highly acclaimed for Homma鈥檚 way of maintaining a certain distance from his subjects 鈥� people and landscapes in the suburbs of Tokyo that were in the process of being developed 鈥� and a perspective that was free of lyricism.
In 2011 and 2012, Homma staged a large-scale solo show called New Documentary, which traveled to three museums in Japan. The exhibition consisted of both old and new works, providing an expansive overview of the artist鈥檚 photographs and videos. These included his early work for publications such as the cultural magazine i-D; Tokyo and My Daughter, a work that focused on scenes of Tokyo and a young girl growing up in the ever-changing city; and a video work based on the photographer Nakahira Takuma.
This exhibition, Homma鈥檚 first solo show at a Japanese museum in some ten years, focuses on series such as The Narcissistic City, which the artist has described as an attempt to 鈥渦se the city to shoot the city鈥� by shooting cities around the world using rooms as if they were pinhole cameras. The light that streams into through a small hole, open to the outside, spontaneously captures inverted urban landscapes inside the pitch-black room.
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Homma Takashi received the 24th Kimura Ihei Award for his photo book Tokyo Suburbia (published by Korinsha) in 1999. The work was highly acclaimed for Homma鈥檚 way of maintaining a certain distance from his subjects 鈥� people and landscapes in the suburbs of Tokyo that were in the process of being developed 鈥� and a perspective that was free of lyricism.
In 2011 and 2012, Homma staged a large-scale solo show called New Documentary, which traveled to three museums in Japan. The exhibition consisted of both old and new works, providing an expansive overview of the artist鈥檚 photographs and videos. These included his early work for publications such as the cultural magazine i-D; Tokyo and My Daughter, a work that focused on scenes of Tokyo and a young girl growing up in the ever-changing city; and a video work based on the photographer Nakahira Takuma.
This exhibition, Homma鈥檚 first solo show at a Japanese museum in some ten years, focuses on series such as The Narcissistic City, which the artist has described as an attempt to 鈥渦se the city to shoot the city鈥� by shooting cities around the world using rooms as if they were pinhole cameras. The light that streams into through a small hole, open to the outside, spontaneously captures inverted urban landscapes inside the pitch-black room.
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