Takashi Arai: Tomorrow's History
Inspired by paintings of the New Objectivity movement and the series People of the 20th Century by photographer August Sander, the Japanese artist Takashi Arai (born in 1978) endeavoured to represent the future using photographs.
To this end, he shot impressive portraits of young Japanese living in locations ravaged by nuclear disasters such as Hiroshima or Fukushima and asked the young people to express their expectations. His sound and picture installation Tomorrow鈥檚 History includes some thirty daguerreotypes shot since 2016.
One of the rare contemporary photographers using daguerreotypes, Arai values this process, which has fallen into oblivion since the 1860s, as it delivers a unique image of a moment that, likewise, is intrinsically unique. His discursive concept takes advantage of the fragility of daguerreotypes to render the weakness of individuals and society. Moreover, the reflections on the surface where the image appears establish a direct connection between the viewer and the unknown person portrayed.
Inspired by paintings of the New Objectivity movement and the series People of the 20th Century by photographer August Sander, the Japanese artist Takashi Arai (born in 1978) endeavoured to represent the future using photographs.
To this end, he shot impressive portraits of young Japanese living in locations ravaged by nuclear disasters such as Hiroshima or Fukushima and asked the young people to express their expectations. His sound and picture installation Tomorrow鈥檚 History includes some thirty daguerreotypes shot since 2016.
One of the rare contemporary photographers using daguerreotypes, Arai values this process, which has fallen into oblivion since the 1860s, as it delivers a unique image of a moment that, likewise, is intrinsically unique. His discursive concept takes advantage of the fragility of daguerreotypes to render the weakness of individuals and society. Moreover, the reflections on the surface where the image appears establish a direct connection between the viewer and the unknown person portrayed.
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