Takashi Homma: Revolution No.9: Camera Obscura Studies
Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present TAKASHI HOMMA: REVOLUTION No.9 / Camera Obscura Studies , the Japanese artist鈥檚 second solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist will stage a musical performance at the opening on November 11th, 6 鈥� 8pm. The exhibition is on view through January 11, 2024. The gallery will be closed for the holidays from December 23rd, reopening on January 3rd, 2024.
Working mostly in color photographic series and photo-books since the mid-1990s, Takashi Homma鈥檚 documentary images almost always also feel poetic. The artist has recorded such diverse subjects as impassive youth in the streets, freshly plucked mushroom specimen, undulating ocean waves, iconic architecture, deer blood tracks in snowy forests, amongst many others.
Over the past several years, Takashi Homma's work has pivoted to include epiphenomenal visages produced by camera obscura rendering black and white photography and surprising color images. Working in unseen rooms of unseen buildings in cities around the world, the artist blacks out windows and eliminates light leaks, leaving only a small 鈥減inhole鈥� through which outside light steams in, casting the building鈥檚 vista onto receptive photosensitive film as an upside down and inverted image. Drawn to both iconic and ubiquitous urban sites, Homma uses 鈥渃ity as a device to photograph itself鈥�. As such, chance-operated improvisation embeds the visual textures in The Narcissistic City series with a sense of timelessness and mystery.
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Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present TAKASHI HOMMA: REVOLUTION No.9 / Camera Obscura Studies , the Japanese artist鈥檚 second solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist will stage a musical performance at the opening on November 11th, 6 鈥� 8pm. The exhibition is on view through January 11, 2024. The gallery will be closed for the holidays from December 23rd, reopening on January 3rd, 2024.
Working mostly in color photographic series and photo-books since the mid-1990s, Takashi Homma鈥檚 documentary images almost always also feel poetic. The artist has recorded such diverse subjects as impassive youth in the streets, freshly plucked mushroom specimen, undulating ocean waves, iconic architecture, deer blood tracks in snowy forests, amongst many others.
Over the past several years, Takashi Homma's work has pivoted to include epiphenomenal visages produced by camera obscura rendering black and white photography and surprising color images. Working in unseen rooms of unseen buildings in cities around the world, the artist blacks out windows and eliminates light leaks, leaving only a small 鈥減inhole鈥� through which outside light steams in, casting the building鈥檚 vista onto receptive photosensitive film as an upside down and inverted image. Drawn to both iconic and ubiquitous urban sites, Homma uses 鈥渃ity as a device to photograph itself鈥�. As such, chance-operated improvisation embeds the visual textures in The Narcissistic City series with a sense of timelessness and mystery.
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