YOKOTA, Daisuke (Saitama, 1983)Taratine. Con fotografia originale

Stampato da Thomas Bossuyt, die Keure, Belgio

Firma autografa dell'Artista, datata 2015 (Signed by the Artist, dated 2015)

Taratine is the first US monograph by Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota. Highly regarded for his technical and aesthetic affinities with the 1960s avant-garde Mono-ha movement and the masters of Provoke, such as Daido Moriyama and Takuma Nakahira, Taratine represents a new direction for Yokota, who turns his work for the first time towards another Japanese tradition, that of the photographic novel. Consisting of photographs and a touching essay, Taratine is Yokota's most personal work to date. It brings together two new works, one made after a trip to Tohoku in 2007, and one made in Tokyo in 2014. The photographs in Tohoku were inspired by a show dedicated to an ancient ginkgo biloba tree in Aomori Prefecture. Called 'Taratine', this tree has been worshipped by generations of women for its legendary fertility-enhancing properties. This vision reminded the artist of the Tohoku region's traditional and enduring connection to the world of natural spirits and her own childhood memories. Out of this experience came a photographic ode to those traditions and memories, which also expresses his strong admiration for the most important women in his life: his mother, in the case of the Aomori images; and his girlfriend, in the Tokyo images.