Osamu Kanemura | Gate Hack Eden
Osamu Kanemura | Gate Hack Eden
Size : 117 x 81 x 163mm
Contents : 1648p
Print : Offset
Edition : 1000 copies (numbered, original order)
Design : ori.studio
Language : English, Japanese
Publisher : ori.studio
Date : 2024.09.13
ISBN978-1-0688196-1-2
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About:
A landscape of towering ruins, shaped by traces of what once was, reveals the essence of what remains and will always endure. This compilation,Gate Hack Eden, was published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at Cave Ayumi Gallery in September 2024.
Beginning as a single body composed of hundreds of stacked photographs, drawings, and film stills, each book is a fragment of this larger entity. It has been divided into a thousand uniform pieces, physically rendering the practice of photographer Osamu Kanemura. Like an edifice rising from a newly formed distance, these images, severed and removed from their original intention, run parallel with Kanemura’s own architectural thinking. He describes his mediums as accumulations of traces and fragments, whose essence only becomes clear when freed from their original utility of reproducing the subject.
Spanning 1,648 pages, the book is divided into five “modules” that stack and interlock, forming a structure that can exist as fragmented or continuous. Hundreds of splintered images are interwoven, their remnants layered in shifting orders. Together, they consolidate into a "ruin object" with seemingly infinite unique configurations—its cracked surfaces scattered like ghostly rubble over a vast plain.
Each copy is hand-sorted and marked with a unique number corresponding to the image on its top surface. Each 400-page module is bound between two clear acrylic covers using alternating plastic rivets. The book includes two essays: one by curator Pauline Vermare, providing a comprehensive overview of Kanemura’s practice, and one by Kanemura himself, delving into the depths of thought behind his work and, by extension, this book.
Osamu Kanemura:
Born in Tokyo in 1964, Kanemura attended Tokyo College of Photography and was invited to the Rotterdam Photography Biennale in 1992. In 1996, MoMA selected him as one of the "Six Photographers to Watch." He has received numerous accolades, including the Newcomer Award from the Japan Photographic Society (1997), the Newcomer Award at the 13th Higashikawa International Photo Festival (1997), the 19th Domon Ken Award (2000), and the 39th Ina Nobuo Award (2014).
Kanemura’s photobooks includeSpider's Strategy,I Can Tell, andConcrete Octopus. He has also authoredZenshinkairakusyashinkaand co-authoredChallenging Photographic Historywith Takazawa Kenji.
Osamu Kanemura | Gate Hack Eden
Size : 117 x 81 x 163mm
Contents : 1648p
Print : Offset
Edition : 1000 copies (numbered, original order)
Design : ori.studio
Language : English, Japanese
Publisher : ori.studio
Date : 2024.09.13
ISBN978-1-0688196-1-2
From the Publisher:
About:
A landscape of towering ruins, shaped by traces of what once was, reveals the essence of what remains and will always endure. This compilation,Gate Hack Eden, was published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at Cave Ayumi Gallery in September 2024.
Beginning as a single body composed of hundreds of stacked photographs, drawings, and film stills, each book is a fragment of this larger entity. It has been divided into a thousand uniform pieces, physically rendering the practice of photographer Osamu Kanemura. Like an edifice rising from a newly formed distance, these images, severed and removed from their original intention, run parallel with Kanemura’s own architectural thinking. He describes his mediums as accumulations of traces and fragments, whose essence only becomes clear when freed from their original utility of reproducing the subject.
Spanning 1,648 pages, the book is divided into five “modules” that stack and interlock, forming a structure that can exist as fragmented or continuous. Hundreds of splintered images are interwoven, their remnants layered in shifting orders. Together, they consolidate into a "ruin object" with seemingly infinite unique configurations—its cracked surfaces scattered like ghostly rubble over a vast plain.
Each copy is hand-sorted and marked with a unique number corresponding to the image on its top surface. Each 400-page module is bound between two clear acrylic covers using alternating plastic rivets. The book includes two essays: one by curator Pauline Vermare, providing a comprehensive overview of Kanemura’s practice, and one by Kanemura himself, delving into the depths of thought behind his work and, by extension, this book.
Osamu Kanemura:
Born in Tokyo in 1964, Kanemura attended Tokyo College of Photography and was invited to the Rotterdam Photography Biennale in 1992. In 1996, MoMA selected him as one of the "Six Photographers to Watch." He has received numerous accolades, including the Newcomer Award from the Japan Photographic Society (1997), the Newcomer Award at the 13th Higashikawa International Photo Festival (1997), the 19th Domon Ken Award (2000), and the 39th Ina Nobuo Award (2014).
Kanemura’s photobooks includeSpider's Strategy,I Can Tell, andConcrete Octopus. He has also authoredZenshinkairakusyashinkaand co-authoredChallenging Photographic Historywith Takazawa Kenji.
Osamu Kanemura | Gate Hack Eden
Size : 117 x 81 x 163mm
Contents : 1648p
Print : Offset
Edition : 1000 copies (numbered, original order)
Design : ori.studio
Language : English, Japanese
Publisher : ori.studio
Date : 2024.09.13
ISBN978-1-0688196-1-2
From the Publisher:
About:
A landscape of towering ruins, shaped by traces of what once was, reveals the essence of what remains and will always endure. This compilation,Gate Hack Eden, was published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at Cave Ayumi Gallery in September 2024.
Beginning as a single body composed of hundreds of stacked photographs, drawings, and film stills, each book is a fragment of this larger entity. It has been divided into a thousand uniform pieces, physically rendering the practice of photographer Osamu Kanemura. Like an edifice rising from a newly formed distance, these images, severed and removed from their original intention, run parallel with Kanemura’s own architectural thinking. He describes his mediums as accumulations of traces and fragments, whose essence only becomes clear when freed from their original utility of reproducing the subject.
Spanning 1,648 pages, the book is divided into five “modules” that stack and interlock, forming a structure that can exist as fragmented or continuous. Hundreds of splintered images are interwoven, their remnants layered in shifting orders. Together, they consolidate into a "ruin object" with seemingly infinite unique configurations—its cracked surfaces scattered like ghostly rubble over a vast plain.
Each copy is hand-sorted and marked with a unique number corresponding to the image on its top surface. Each 400-page module is bound between two clear acrylic covers using alternating plastic rivets. The book includes two essays: one by curator Pauline Vermare, providing a comprehensive overview of Kanemura’s practice, and one by Kanemura himself, delving into the depths of thought behind his work and, by extension, this book.
Osamu Kanemura:
Born in Tokyo in 1964, Kanemura attended Tokyo College of Photography and was invited to the Rotterdam Photography Biennale in 1992. In 1996, MoMA selected him as one of the "Six Photographers to Watch." He has received numerous accolades, including the Newcomer Award from the Japan Photographic Society (1997), the Newcomer Award at the 13th Higashikawa International Photo Festival (1997), the 19th Domon Ken Award (2000), and the 39th Ina Nobuo Award (2014).
Kanemura’s photobooks includeSpider's Strategy,I Can Tell, andConcrete Octopus. He has also authoredZenshinkairakusyashinkaand co-authoredChallenging Photographic Historywith Takazawa Kenji.
