Last days to discover Close to the Edge: New Photography from Japan, exhibition at Miyako Yoshinaga gallery with works by Kenta Cobayashi, Mayumi Hosokura, Taisuke Koyama, Hiroshi Takizawa and Daisuke Yokota. The exhibition curated by New York-based writer and photobook collector Russet Lederman, brings to New York City for the first time works by five young Japanese photographers in their 20s and 30s who explore the boundaries of image making in a post-Internet art world.
In her curatorial statement, Lederman states, “The five young Japanese photographers in Close to the Edge simultaneously embrace and shatter photographic illusions through images that acknowledge the artifice of their craft and the power of photography’s seductive fiction. Although united by their strong sense of community, friendship and common pursuit of rethinking established conventions of photographic expression, each photographer in this show approaches the task through a distinctly different methodology. Questions of analog versus digital, commercial versus fine art or manipulation versus documentation are no longer contentious… It doesn’t matter if their work is called photography, sculpture or art — all terms apply, or don’t.”
EXHIBITION
Close to the Edge
New Photography from Japan
Curated by Russet Lederman
Photographs by Kenta Cobayashi, Mayumi Hosokura, Taisuke Koyama, Hiroshi Takizawa and Daisuke Yokota
From April 16th to May 28th, 2016
Miyako Yoshinaga
547 West 27th Street Suite 204
New York NY 10001
United States
http://www.miyakoyoshinaga.com
Tuesday–Saturday 11am–6pm
