Takashi Homma: Various camera obscura studies - inprogress
This exhibition features the increasing concern of Takashi Homma for 鈥淐amera obscura鈥� and windows.
Homma has been working with 鈥淐amera obscura鈥� since 2013. 鈥淐amera obscura鈥� means a 鈥渄ark room鈥� in Latin, and this is the proto-form of photography in which an inverted image is projected by light passing through a tiny hole in a wall.
Homma converts entire rooms into pinhole cameras, blacking out the windows with dark paper and sealing off lights leaks with tape. Therefore the sunlight came out from the window made the landscape pictures on the other side of the windows. In this way, he takes the pictures of real city landscape but mysterious world of shadows. The artist explains that the concept of this series is to take pictures of architecture using architecture. You can notice that the shutters of the cameras are the windows in this series. The windows are border of the private inner world and public outer world, and those are the frames of how we seize the world as well.
Meanwhile, the artist is questioning how they were landscapes visible through the window of the houses.
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This exhibition features the increasing concern of Takashi Homma for 鈥淐amera obscura鈥� and windows.
Homma has been working with 鈥淐amera obscura鈥� since 2013. 鈥淐amera obscura鈥� means a 鈥渄ark room鈥� in Latin, and this is the proto-form of photography in which an inverted image is projected by light passing through a tiny hole in a wall.
Homma converts entire rooms into pinhole cameras, blacking out the windows with dark paper and sealing off lights leaks with tape. Therefore the sunlight came out from the window made the landscape pictures on the other side of the windows. In this way, he takes the pictures of real city landscape but mysterious world of shadows. The artist explains that the concept of this series is to take pictures of architecture using architecture. You can notice that the shutters of the cameras are the windows in this series. The windows are border of the private inner world and public outer world, and those are the frames of how we seize the world as well.
Meanwhile, the artist is questioning how they were landscapes visible through the window of the houses.
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