Tomohide Ikeya Exhibition
"BREATH"
Exhibition Details
Duration: May 27 (Fri) - May 29 (Sun), 2016
Opening Hours:
May 27 (Fri): 9:30-20:00
May 28 (Sat): 9:30-20:00
May 29 (Sun): 9:30-19:00
Closed: None during the exhibition period
Venue: Toyama Glass Art Museum, Gallery 1
Address: TOYAMA KIRARI, 5-1 Nishicho, Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture 930-0062
Exhibition Overview
This powerful yet beautiful exhibition highlights "life and death" as they emerge in the underwater world. Japanese photographer Tomohide Ikeya, who has gained international recognition for capturing breathtaking moments in underwater photography, presents his first exhibition in the Hokuriku region.
Ikeya directly confronts the themes of life and death through his continued photography of people at water's edge and underwater. This exhibition represents the culmination of his "BREATH" series.
About the Works
These photographs, showing human bodies adorned with pearl-like bubbles in a pitch-black world, released from gravity and in dynamic motion, are not composite images. They were taken by the photographer himself while diving underwater.
Since the shooting takes place underwater, the subjects naturally cannot breathe during the photography session. Breathing is both a technique for survival and proof of existence for humans. The "BREATH" series is a collection of photographs that Ikeya has continued to take with a focus on this breath.
The subjects span a wide range of ages and genders, showing various expressions from calm to anguished. Each photograph serves as a contemplation of what it means for humans to "live."
