Yuhki Touyama, Scenes of Absence

Scenes of Absence

Yuhki Touyama

Publisher
Akaaka Art Publishing
Year
2024
ISBN
978-4-86541-188-1
Specifications
Softcover
210 x 152 mm
176 pages
Book design by Yuri Suyama

Photographs made while Yuhki Touyama cared for her dying grandmother at home during the pandemic, after she resigned from an eleven-year job to move in with her. Colour pictures of the neighbourhood, taken in the few minutes she could go out shopping as a desperate breather, alternate with black-and-white images of the garden seen from the room, made to share the gaze of a grandmother who could no longer leave the house and saw ink paintings on the wall in her hallucinations. The grandmother does not appear in a single picture, and the different time of carer and cared-for becomes vivid; the photographs left behind announce an absence and became a way of continuing the conversation. The cover lets colour and black-and-white images show through each other, as if the boundary wavered.

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