Asako Narahashi at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, Jul 17 - Aug 22

Exhibition Description:

This will be Asako Narahashi's first solo show in the United States. The series half awake and half asleep in the water is a collection of C-Prints of various coastal sites in Japan. She has been pursuing this theme since 2001, having photographed over fifty locations with a Nikonos 35mm waterproof film camera.

Narahashi floats chest deep in the ocean while facing back towards the shore, her camera held half-submerged in the water. The artist carefully times her pictures according to the swells of the ocean tide. From this perspective point, waves washing against the lens of the camera create unexpected relationships between water, land and sky.

With the ocean dominating the view, the water in the extreme foreground distorts the customary perspectives of bridges, airplanes, buildings and mountains. Viewers are suspended in moments of uncertainty, leaving conflicting sensations of calm and growing apprehension unresolved.

Description:

Asako Narahashi (b.1959 in Tokyo, Japan) began experimenting with photography in the mid-1980s. She is also currently exhibiting work from this series in the current exhibition Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan at the International Center of Photography, New York. Her photographs can be found in numerous permanent collections internationally. Narahashi currently lives and works in Tokyo.

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Yossi Milo Gallery
525 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
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