Interlude by Yuki Kumagai - limited

With Interlude, Japanese photographer Yuki Kumagai celebrates the first ten years of his career as a photographer. While the professional work of Kumagai, a former assistant to Osamu Yokonami, reaches across a wide range of genres, from advertising to brand campaigns, fashion and portraits, the photographs compiled in “Interlude” speak of Kumagai’s refine sense as an artist.

Inspired by the lines and textures of the body, by sandy beaches, human figures, close-ups of various materials, wrinkles, natural phenomena, usual and unusual phenomena, Kumagai’s “Interlude” argues for a deeper appreciation of the fleeting moments that happen in the interstices of life; seemingly repetitive and negligible, yet unique and invaluable.

curator's text :

A decision to hold something in. Into this rectangle photographers cuts the world, disappears the reality. For ten years, Kumagai has asked after clicking the shutter : “When the image appears before us, where does the vanished go?”

To reveal something is to retract the rest — and the disappearance gives the room to be read. Beyond the frame exists the margin in which what we see could still be something else.

Kumagai’s photographes opens this precision into a gap. In the room left by everything withheld, the only that is shown is subtly so much greater than the epilogue. The interlude suspends, a passage between states, unresolved, still able to lead elsewhere. His fragments refuse completion, and in refusing, they hold more than a whole could. The world as it might still be.

Finality, completion, the sealed wholeness of a view do not always bring clarity — of the view, of the definition, of intention in itself. In the making of these rectangular boundaries, the blank passe partout, rather relieved, keep his question alive.

Our walls hang this narrative accordingly, giving each work its possibility that emerges from absence.

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Interlude, Yuki Kumagai. Selek Limited, 2022.

Format: Hardcover

Dimensions: 250 x 185 mm

Pages: 104

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ISBN: 9784910889016

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