KAWASHIMA TAKASHI
IMPLICIT LEARNING
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KAWASHIMA TAKASHI
IMPLICIT LEARNING
As I walked through Sarushima (Monkey Island), traces of war and lush vegetation intertwined, giving rise to an invisible “presence” in the air. When I photographed these two elements using double exposure, the resulting images seemed ghost-like—suggesting both the island’s buried memories and its distant future.
What is this “presence,” and what does it bring? Why are we able to sense something that is not visible? Through these chance encounters, we learn not only about the surface of the island, but also about the human qualities within nature and the wildness that we, too, are meant to possess.
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KAWASHIMA TAKASHI
Photographer, born 1985 in Miyagi, Japan; graduated from the Department of Photography, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo Polytechnic University in 2008 and completed the Master’s course in Media Art, Photography Area, Graduate School of Arts, Tokyo Polytechnic University in 2011; based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 2016 to 2018, returning to Japan in 2018. She works as a photographer, commercial photographer and university teacher. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Photography, Faculty of Arts, Tokyo Polytechnic University. His main theme is ‘stories of absence’, starting from natural phenomena and memories of the land. He develops large-scale installations using a variety of media, including photographic film and video materials taken by himself, found photographs, image synthesis using automatic computation, three-dimensional works and texts quoted from literary works, and utilises space. He has held numerous exhibitions and won awards.