New Issue:
Collection of works My Mother, the Stranger, Creo version
received the 29th Tadahiko Hayashi Award in 2020
Kasagi's mother who lived in the first half of life in East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria, Japan) before the war. Kasagi went to the site and continued to create works by intermingling old family photographs with current photographs taken. In the relativistic space-time system, "Mother's Showa" and "My Heisei" interact and a "third spectacle" rises like a revelation. A large collection of works is published at the beginning of Reiwa, which has been 21 years since Kasagi's mother passed away.
Etsuko Kasagi 53 works and texts
B4 size bookbinding 132 pages, 6 double doors
Contributed by Shin'ichi Yamamuro, Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University
Book design: Hitoshi Suzuki Office
Print: i WORD
Coordinator: Kazuyuki Kawaguchi
English translation: Christopher Stephens
Publisher: Creo
Published: December 21, 2019
List price: main unit 9,000 yen (excluding tax)
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From the contribution of Shin'ichi Yamamuro, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University:
Etsuko Kasagi’s book of photographs My Mother, the Stranger exerts a strange fascination.
Following Kasagi on her journey in search of her “unknown mother,” we are transported to unknown times and unknown places.
Spaces from the past and the present are intermingled and superimposed,
and while they both must have existed somewhere, the result is a chronotopos
(time and space) that is nowhere. Through non-existence, it exerts a powerful
presence. By placing a world that should not exist right before our eyes,
she seems to clearly show us a reality beyond the blurred, vague outlines
of the visible world.
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