Ariko Inaoka, EAGLE AND RAVEN

EAGLE AND RAVEN

Ariko Inaoka

Publisher
Akaaka Art Publishing
Year
2020
ISBN
978-4-86541-111-9
Specifications
Cloth-covered codex binding
230 x 171 mm
80 pages
Title foil in gold or silver (two versions)
Art direction by Ariko Inaoka

Ariko Inaoka's long-awaited photobook after SOL (2008): a series on twin sisters she met in Iceland and photographed every summer for seven years, from the age of nine to sixteen; the title comes from the sisters' names, Eagle and Raven. As they once said, they sometimes dream the same dream, and the two figures seem to resonate mysteriously; Inaoka brings out the presence of another self, at times through mirrors and water, while the simple costumes of the ballet they study and their choreographed gestures abstract it further. Unravelling in resonance with the land, sky and sea of Iceland, the self appears as part of nature, and through the twins the book describes the way life is everywhere and the space in which it dwells. It is wrapped in deep blue cloth, with photographs pasted in circles that recall heavenly bodies, no spine, and the colours of the stacked pages showing with the binding thread.

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