TOBU, Akiko　"HIKARIBA"
2007/07/10.tue. - 07/31.tue.　Open 10:30 - 18:30（saturday - to 17:30）
（Closed　Every Week Monday, Sunday and National Holidays）


Once I began taking photographs, I noticed strange things would sometimes steal into frame. Ghostlike traces: unforeseeable, wondrous, fraught with contradiction and caught wholly unawares. Mysterious shape-shifting apparitions, or what we Japanese call obake.

A woman who passed for one brief instant in the early spring chill of Seoul stares back at me. A van from last rainy season in Osaka tail-ends into view in the darkroom. Glistening leaves in the early summer light Antwerp seven years ago, rediscovered just this spring in Tokyo.

Apparitions captured on film appear before my gazing eyes. Presences that might stay with me or just as easily vanish, or then again, they might reveal some other look only much later.


　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　June 2007, Akiko Tobu

"The Hotel Upstairs" 2003 　\ 2,940
"Memoraphilia" 2004 　\ 3,150
Punlished by Studio Parabolica Inc.

　　


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