Noyuboshi Araki
Noyuboshi Araki
For the lucky people who have the opportunity of going to La Fábrica, this museum of modern art in Madrid, I would be dead jealous to know, and would definitely recommend the exposition of Noyuboshi Araki, an amazing Japanese photographer.
Araki explores the Metropolis’s inner self, capturing marginal moments and corners which survive to the rush and carelessness of everyday life in the big city. This relation of empathy with the naked city, lonely and de-personalised though crowded, is heavily contrasted with his captures of quotidian intimacy. Beauty arises from the ignored homely details: coloured flowers, plastic lizards and other forgotten objects.
But the most impressive photographs are those exploring humanity: feminine bodies display the same sense of disregard and exposure to loneliness. Their minimal facial expressions are violently contrasted with the treatment of body: lassitude and shibari. A woman’s body and the city are two representations of a same feeling. The city rush and the ancestral (denigrating?) art of shibari can’t capture the inner self, which survives unseen to a de-personalising life.
Araki aims and captures moments of emerging consciousness: his is the look of (Michael Ende’s) Momo in a city paralysed by stolen time; the glimpse at a life that goes by without being remarked: the so traditionally Japanese attention to life details and attitudes which can only save us from city life, and twist us back to the immobile reality of things and people.
For those interested in apprehending this singular perception and conscience, maybe you are lucky enough to be able to visit the permanent exposition in the Barbican (????) in London.
For all, you should visit his blog-site. Never mind that your computer doesn’t recognise kanji (Japanese characters). The flash animations are impressive.
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And if ever you are a real pervert and are interested on shibary, Nawa Sensei osqvar can teach you some things…