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Ariño Israel
The Okama Paradox
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- Israel Ariño and Clara Gassull
- Ediciones Anomalas (2022)
- 175 copies
- Design: underbau
- 23 x 28cm. 24 pages
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"In 2019, thanks to an exhibition at the Tosei Gallery in Tokyo, I had the opportunity to visit Japan for the first time, curious to discover a culture I only knew from books and to walk in the footsteps of photographers I admire: Issei Suda, Shoji Ueda, Nakaji Yasui...
Japan allowed me to immerse myself in a threefold experience: life, photography and travel.
I didn't want to make a documentary, but to explore a new, different visual language, going back to the origins of photography: form, light, tones... Ultimately, I wanted to evolve, explore other possibilities, broaden my fields of research.
So I tried different procedures. Rather than focusing on the visible, I looked for the invisible: the moments of contemplation, those when nothing happens, the forms that take us back to original elements, the tiny clues that suggest a much wider reality.
Confronting the richness of this culture was a privilege. I felt like one of those first travellers in search of a personal adventure, discovering a country for the first time.
Perhaps dreaming of an ideal image was the aim of my investigation. Then I remembered a passage from Clara's notebook: they say that right here, where you are, is the Okama crater, but if you can't see it, how can you be sure it exists?"
Japan allowed me to immerse myself in a threefold experience: life, photography and travel.
I didn't want to make a documentary, but to explore a new, different visual language, going back to the origins of photography: form, light, tones... Ultimately, I wanted to evolve, explore other possibilities, broaden my fields of research.
So I tried different procedures. Rather than focusing on the visible, I looked for the invisible: the moments of contemplation, those when nothing happens, the forms that take us back to original elements, the tiny clues that suggest a much wider reality.
Confronting the richness of this culture was a privilege. I felt like one of those first travellers in search of a personal adventure, discovering a country for the first time.
Perhaps dreaming of an ideal image was the aim of my investigation. Then I remembered a passage from Clara's notebook: they say that right here, where you are, is the Okama crater, but if you can't see it, how can you be sure it exists?"
