Sakiko Nomura - Room 416 (signed)

Sakiko Nomura
Room 416

Published by Galerie Echo 119, 2022
Book format 13.5 x 15.5 cm
64 pages
Hardcover
Printed by Die Keure
Limited edition of 420 copies.

SIGNED BY THE ARTIST

Room 416 presents the work of Japanese photographer Sakiko Nomura around the Polaroid. Sakiko Nomura constructs her images in the shadows. Photographing her models in places as bare as their bodies, intimacy is at the heart of her work. Her images evoke the hushed atmosphere of rooms we recognize without having visited them, the rustling of sheets, the rustling of a curtain half-opened to let a ray of light enter the darkness. She approaches love, sex, relationships, and the fragility of human beings with modesty and gentleness. Combining Polaroids in trios, mixing places and moments, Nomura has created short stories that reinvent themselves according to the viewer's imagination. The Polaroid, which belongs as much to the private world as to professional photographers, is a kind of magic. By virtue of its unique physical appearance, it becomes a small spatio-temporal window that transports those who stand in front of the photograph to the moment it was taken. It is this slightly different relationship to time that appeals to Nomura: "I believe that our relationship with Polaroids can change depending on the place, the moment we look at them," she says. The book was thus designed so that the reader can either keep the initial sequence or compose their own triptychs, in order to adapt the images to their current feelings.