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Loock Galerie presents NOGUCHI Rika - To The Night Planet Archive | Information & News |
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NOGUCHI Rika, To the Night Planet #18, archival pigment print, 140cm x 100cm, 2014
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NOGUCHI Rika To The Night Planet Opening: Friday | September 9, 2016 | 7pm – 9pm September 10 – November 19, 2016 „Our daily lives are filled with small miracles that we don’t notice. Being invisible, they are difficult to capture in a photo. Things you can't see, but they are there: those are the things I want, somehow, to photograph.“ – NOGUCHI Rika In her second solo show at the Loock Galerie, NOGUCHI Rika shows the 28-part series To the Night Planet (2014), photographed in analogue. It was shot from the M29 bus, en route between Charlottenburg and Kreuzberg. An austere conceptual work gives rise to photography that seems almost painterly. It depicts the big city in the light of the night: glaring headlights and streetlights indirectly illuminate the urban landscapes of buildings, in the darkness visible only through their light sources. Specifically and sensitively, Noguchi utilizes photographic techniques such as cross-fade, over-exposure and soft focus. Chance nighttime encounters become poetry. A video (2015) shot at the same time will be shown to accompany the show. NOGUCHI Rika (*1971 in Saitama, Japan) lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Department of Photography, College of Art, at the Nihon University (Tokyo). Furthermore she stayed in New York with a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council and in Amsterdam as a guest artist at Rijksakademie. Solo shows include the Izu Photo Museum (Shizuoka), D´Amelio Terras (New York), Gallery Koyanagi (Tokyo) and Ikon Gallery (Birmingham). She has also participated in numerous group shows such as the Sharjah Biennial 8 (Sharjah), 55th Carnegie/International: Life on Mars, Carnegie Museum (Pittsburg) and the Yokohoma Triennale 2011 (Yokohoma). --- „Our daily lives are filled with small miracles that we don’t notice. Being invisible, they are difficult to capture in a photo. Things you can't see, but they are there: those are the things I want, somehow, to photograph.“ – NOGUCHI Rika In ihrer zweiten Einzelausstellung in der Loock Galerie zeigt NOGUCHI Rika die analog fotografierte 28-teilige Serie To the Night Planet (2014). Sie entstand aus dem Linienbus M29 heraus, auf der Strecke zwischen Charlottenburg und Kreuzberg. Dabei wird aus streng konzeptueller Arbeit fast malerisch wirkende Fotografie. Sie zeigt die Großstadt im Lichte der Nacht: Blendende Autoscheinwerfer und Straßenlaternen erleuchten indirekt urbane Häuserlandschaften, die in der Dunkelheit nur durch ihre Lichtquellen sichtbar werden. Gezielt und sensibel setzt Noguchi hier fotografische Techniken wie Überblendung, Überbelichtung und Unschärfe ein. Zufallsbegegnungen in der Nacht werden zu Poesie. Begleitend wird das zeitgleich aufgenommene Video (2015) gezeigt. NOGUCHI Rika (*1971 in Saitama, Japan) lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Sie hat an der Nihon-Universität in Tokyo Fotografie studiert. Zudem war sie mit einem Stipendium des Asian Cultural Council in New York und als Gastkünstler an der Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Ihre Fotografien waren u.a. zu sehen in: Izu Fotomuseum (Shizuoka), D´Amelio Terras (New York), Galerie Koyanagi (Tokyo) und Ikon Gallery (Birmingham). Sie hat an zahlreichen Gruppenausstellungen teilgenommen: Sharjah Biennial 8 (Sharjah), 55. Carnegie/International: Life on Mars, Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh) und an der Yokohoma Triennale 2011 (Yokohoma). Loock Galerie Potsdamer Straße 63 10785 Berlin [email protected] |
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