The Actes Sud tour of the Ateliers ends with a spectacular installation created for the occasion by Daido Moriyama. From his famous image of the female body girdled in fishnet tights – which he fiddles with with jubilation and salutory disrespect – he has created a background, a large piece of kinetic wallpaper to which contact sheets have been attached and on which two lines of prints have been framed. Like the photographer himself, you have to go and decipher the exhibition that is only too aware of its chaotic worldview approach, with cities sectioned every which way in strong contrasts. This “LABYRINTH + MONOCHROME” exhibits a flow of black and white photos from one of the most loquacious, radical and hard working image workers around. The only possible approach is to go with him, take him to yourself and accept the dross, all the while taking note of the complexity of his world that no longer tolerates simplification or representation of any kind. You must, like Moriyama does, let the city right inside your retina and, like him, take the hits in an attempt, even if in vain, to understand.
Born in Japan in 1938, Daido Moriyama is one of the world’s most important contemporary photographers. A member of the post-war Japanese avant-garde, he first came to the fore in the mid-Sixties. With more than one hundred and fifty books to his name, including photographs, theoretical texts and various printing techniques, he has also used performance art and installations to cover all aspects of the medium of photography in a redefinition of what street photography means.
Daido Moriyama
From July 1st to September 22nd, 2013
Parc des Ateliers
magasin Électrique
13200 Arles
France
Photo Poche 141 : Daido Moriyama
Text by Gabriel Bauret
86 photographs
12,5 x 19 cm
144 pages
13 €
Also
“View from the Labyrinth” [Platinum prints].
Daido Moriyama
Galerie Polka
12 rue Saint-Gilles
75003 Paris
France
