In rendering the world of space and time as a surface image, one thing photography rarely achieves (or aims for) with accuracy is scale. Naoya Hatakeyama exploits this gap with his with his recent series Scales, commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). Currently showing at Daiwa Foundation Japan House in London, the body of work comes from the artist’s thinking about perception and our incapacity to grasp the world around us in its entirety. In his own words: “What is embodied in photography is not a clear ‘knowledge of the whole’, but, rather, a ‘longing for the knowledge of the whole’.”
Images © Naoya Hatakeyama
Posted by a 10:27 PM, November 30th, 2010 Comments Off