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LIBRARYMANTony Cederteg

EVENT:

SMALL TOWN
2023427 – 52
12:00-19:00
BOOK AND SONS 1F

SMALL TOWN
202352
17:00-19:00
BOOK AND SONS

Staged on a farm in rural Japan, externaling Higashikawa in Hokkaido, Osamu Yokonamis (b. 1967, Japanese) images demonstrate his particular use of photography as an artistic medium. Working with straightforward camera angles, Yokonami transforms ordinary bodies, farming tools and the local produce into haunting imagesunexpectedly absurd and familiar. Headless figures, an aubergine-masked face, an abandoned baby on a paper bag, a topless character submissively kneeling in the grass while balancing two large tomatoes on their back. The series suggests a performative and complicit moment between the photographer and the people portrayed. As one feels the vulnerability of the subject facing the lens, one wonders: who is playing who in this image?

The book contains a foreword written by editor and designer Tony Cederteg.