yu hirai, between dog and wolf, photographs, Exhibition from August 16 to October 15, 2022, Opening Monday August 29 from 18 to 20.30
When the day drops and comes at night, All artificial lights are intensifying. The moment of the meeting of these two atmospheres, I have always fascinated me.
The very first photograph of this date dates from 1997. This is my self -portrait in the intimacy? From my studio to? Berlin. I am in front of a fene? Be opened, at dusk. Red light, opaque, surround me and covers my face. This effect has been? Obtained by a point on the extensive rear and not on my face. This blur and net game later became my modus operandi, If I needed me several anne for what was going to become between dog and wolf.
In this series, The blue color symbolizes the extensive world, reality? objective and unknown. The Red, on the other hand, Take up my memories, my dreams, My interior universe. This color has always been? For me the protection ide, heat and well.
To the purpose of the 1980s, has? The age of twenty, I left Japan for Europe. Since then, I have VCU abroad. While I prepares the papers necessary for my departure, My me taught me that my father was not Japanese. His parents were Coreens who emigrated to Japan during the period of Japanese colonialism, No doubt in the 1920s, But I don't really know. Throughout the time of this exchange with my mother, My father is cache behind the door.
It is the discovery of this pass that made me aware of the problem? My minority and diasporas, nationalisms and identity issues. I do not express myself directly on these subjects in my work, But they are at the heart of my creations.
My father was present, But absent. He lived with us, But he made a vacuum around him. It is this emptiness that I find today in the absence of a face of my portraits of the forth between dog and wolf. This face without line has become the symbol of social and identity absurdity of our world.
Yu hirai