KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY is pleased to announce the opening of Asuka Katagiri’s solo exhibition, Light and Now—Photon Superposition on Saturday, January 19th, 2019.

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Throughout his career, Katagiri has been creating photographic works under the theme of “light.” In Light Navigation, an ongoing lifework by Katagiri, the artist directly captured sunray that had traveled from outer space onto the surface of the film. 21_34 too is a body of work that captures “light,” which will be showcased for its very first time as a solo exhibition since the artist had started working on in 2009.

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21_34 is a photographic work that captures fireworks lit high in the night sky. The artificial yet ephemeral light that fills up the night sky is as though one life, which has a beginning and an end. Katagiri holds his camera in a calm state of mind as in meditation, and captures these traces of light in which the human eye is unable to witness, as though going against the flow of time.

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Furthermore, Katagiri placed attention to the figures  “21, 34” that appear in the Fibonacci number, and printed his works on photographic paper sized 21 x 34 inches. By borrowing the figures which commonly appear in nature—such as in flower petals and fruit—, Katagiri attempted to visualize the superposition of artificial practices and the hidden laws in nature.

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This exhibition would be the first time to showcase his new body of work 21_34 since he started working on the series ten years ago, as an extension of his lifework of pursuing light. We would like to cordially welcome you to this precious occasion.