CONCRETE OCTOPUS • Osamu Kanemura • 2017 Pierre von Kleist & Osiris 90 pgs • Edited by André Príncipe, José Pedro Cortes & Yoko Sawada • All photographs in this book are untitled works taken by Kanemura between 2011 & 2013 • Text from Chris Fujiwara, a film critic living in Tokyo • PVP 30€ • Linha de Sombra • www.linhadesombra.com • Cinemateca Portuguesa ◼︎
“It would be strange and misleading, though obviously not wholly inaccurate, to call these photographs «images of Japan of the present time». Though they might perhaps have much to say to the social historian, their documentary function is circumscribed by the interest in exploring a visual universe too disunited and incomplete to be recognizable as a cultural or historical form. In these images, the world presents itself with great purity and without provocation or seduction, as though poised in the interval before the repetition of an already forgotten catastrophe.”
