[Limited to 750 copies / Signed postcard included] Swaying Flowers Photobook by Fumika Endo

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This is photographer Endo Fumika's first photo book. It features a group of works themed around flowers, a motif that has been important to Endo since she began taking photographs. This book is a remake of the art book that was presented at the end of her undergraduate degree exhibition at Tokyo University of the Arts. The attached leaflet contains a text by Murakami Yuzuru, who published "Whose Art and Feminism Are?" this summer and is also known for his writing in magazines and online media.

The following is quoted from the publisher's website:
Ayakaendo (Endo Ayaka) is one of the most promising artists, highly acclaimed for her creative endeavors that embody an animistic world. Her work has expanded beyond the art world into the world of fashion, capturing the hearts of people of all ages.

The work that Roshin Books will be publishing as Ayakaendo's first photo collection is a remake of a large handmade book that Endo produced when he graduated from university. Flowers, an important motif in Endo's work, are photographed with various cameras and transferred onto fabric, which he then tore around the edges by hand.

By transferring the shape of the flowers exposed to light onto the soft support of fabric, the flowers acquire a new shape, and by tearing the fabric with Endo's will, they obtain a one-of-a-kind present. And the moment it is pasted onto paper, that time transforms into eternity.

Perhaps a projection of her own fluctuating emotions, or perhaps simply driven by the enchanting beauty of the flowers, the trembling of the torn fabric evokes strong emotions like the flickering light of a strobe light.

This work was created before Endo discovered animism, and it also serves as an important key to understanding Endo's current work.

Fumika Endo
Born in 1994. Graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Design. Active as a photographer based in Tokyo. Major solo exhibitions include "Kamuy Mosir" (Kitte Marunouchi, Tokyo/2021), "The belief in Spritual Beings" (Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo/2022), and "when I see you, you are luminous" (Tokyo International Gallery, Tokyo/2023). Major group exhibitions include "Wandering Bunjin" (MA2 Gallery, Tokyo/2022). Received an Honorable Mention in the New Cosmos of Photography 2021 (selected by Onodera Yuki).

Yuzuru Murakami
Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1991. After working as an assistant in the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art, he is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in Social and Human Sciences at the School of Environment and Society at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a part-time lecturer at Nippon Photography Institute, and a part-time specialist at the Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center, a public interest incorporated foundation. He is the co-author of "Critical Words: Fashion Studies" (Film Art Co., Ltd.). He currently writes serials on POPEYE Web: "Photography Theory for Me Until the Day Before Yesterday," The Fashion Post: "Today's Image Culture Theory," and Gentosha Plus: "Do We Really Not Understand Contemporary Art?" He writes about photography, art, and fashion images, and plans exhibitions. He specializes in the aesthetics of photography.

Product Information

release date 2023年12月1日

Part numberGPHT11770J-9784909742049

Specification Hardcover / Limited to 750 copies / Includes leaflet and autographed postcard

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