Exhibition

Coucou. Je suis revenu. ( I am home. )  「ただいま」

 

Ce projet photographique a été coordonné par Ko Yamada, artiste photographe originaire de Nagoya, Japon.

La série a été imprimée via un développement par papier albuminé.

Très populaire au 19ème siècle, le processus d'impression sur papier albuminé fut introduit par le marchand de tissus français Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard qui se passionnait pour l'étude de la photographie.

La technique a eu un succès mondial, notamment au Japon.

C'était au 19ème, bien avant l'ère de la photographie digitale.

Pourtant, après avoir été surexposés aux techniques photographiques commerciales et ultranormalisées,

nous expérimentons un retour à ce processus personnel, artisanal et instable, qui se fait ressentir simultanément autour du globe.

C'est dans ce contexte que nous ramenons le savoir faire de cette vieille école française développée au Japon, à la Biennale de Saint-Etienne, France.

Cette exposition ne se concentre pas uniquement sur le thème du procédé photographique. Elle cherche aussi à interroger l'idée du chez soi et du retour chez soi.

Nous rentrons tous chez nous. Cependant, où est notre maison?

"Etre chez soi" se rapporte à la maison, à la personne, au travail quotidien, au lieu, à la pensée, au corps.

Cette exposition est consacrée à nos agonies et questions quant à notre «chez nous».

 

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This photography project is organized by Ko Yamada, a photography artists from Nagoya, Japan.

 

All the photography works are printed with albumen print process which was a popular photography print in 19th century.

Albumen print process is introduced by French cloth merchant, Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard who studied photography. The process was very poplar worldwide and was imported to Japan in 19th century.

 

It has been a while since digital photography is introduced. However, after we exposed to so much of standardized and commercialized photography process, many of us are coming back to this personal, hand crafted, and unstable process, simultaneously around the world. For this occasion, we are bringing back this French oriented old school process developed In Japan, to the Biennale in Saint-Etienne, France.

 

The theme of our exhibition is not only focusing on the process, but ideas about our home and homecoming. We all are going home. However, where and what is our home ? Home refers to house, person, job, place, and your mind and body.

This exhibition is about our agonies and questions to our "home".

 

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The exhibition is consist of three elements

1. Albumen print photographs from Japan.

2. Albumen prints from our printmaking workshop for the public in Saint-Etienne.

3. Photographs we shoot in Saint-Etienne according to the theme during the first week of the show. (They will be airmailed from Japan and will be installed in the last two weeks of the show)

 

We are going to have an albumen printmaking workshop that you can participate at our venue during the first week of the show. Please bring in your favorite photo of your home that you would like to reprint with this historical process.

" Coucou. Je suis revenu." ( I am home ) and we hope you join to create this hand crafted exhibition with us.


Artists

Harada, Aiko


Matsui, Saori


Suzukawa, Atsuko


Himori, Kishin


Ogura, Akiko


Niwa, Satoshi


Yamada, Ko


Irei, Keiko


Shibata, Yuuki


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