2 years after her great show The Birth of Gravity, the Galerie Lazarew Paris welcome back Japanese photographer Yuriko Takagi. For her new exhibition, SEI, Yuriko Takagi shows a disturbing immersion into the intimacy of flowers.
In Japanese, a lot of signs are pronounced “SEI”. Yuriko realized that with all their meanings, we can describe all stages of life… She selected 28 of these characters, whose meanings are as broad as “honest,” “invite”, “abundance”, “sex” or “death”.
In the meantime, she chose 28 flowers. She “undressed” the plants, to capture the face that nature usually hides with decency. Sometimes, she captured them just before flowering, like teanagers. Flowers, once the ultimate symbols of seduction, show in their intimacy a troubling, raw and sensual beauty. They become an object of desire or repulsion, echoing the Sei they are related to.
EXHIBITION
Sei de Yuriko Takagi
From November 14th to December 20th, 2014
Galerie Lazarew Paris
14 rue du Perche
75003 Paris
France
+33 1.44.61.28.73
[email protected]
http://www.galerie-lazarew.fr/
Sei de Yuriko Takagi
En 2015
Galerie Lazarew Bruxelles
Av. Louis Lepoutre, 112
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
+32 2 3453083
[email protected]
BOOK
Sei de Yuriko Takagi
Xavier Barral Editions
245 x 340 mm
68 pages
28 photographs B&W
Prix : 49 € TTC
ISBN : 978-2-36511-028-0
http://exb.fr/fr/159-sei.html
Limited Edition – 30 copies
Created by amana, Tokyo :
With two prints
24,5 x 34,5 cm
1,000 € (15 first copies)
