Tomic Koyama Gallery presents the films Work Horse (2015) and Nanae ( 2016) together with 21 unique and original 4×5″ Instant film photographs portraying logging horses. Opening Reception Tuesday, October 9, 5-7 pm October 9 – October 13, 2018 11am-7pm TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY Complex 665 2F, 6-5-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, …
In Japanese there is a saying hyōtan kara koma, ‘a horse appearing from a gourd’. It is used when something completely unexpected, even unbelievable, happens. It refers to the legend of Chokara sennin, an immortal being who owns a horse that when necessary, he can conjure up as if by …
Shio, the Japanese word for ‘tide’ is very important for people living on the islands in South Western Japan. It refers not only to high and low tides but also to the currents running between the islands that decide the favorability of sea travel between them. If the shio is …
Using five unusual objects that bring myth, imagination and the transient nature of life together Charlotte Dumas has compiled an exhibition that centers on the basic elements of life, its vulnerability and resilience.
Stay, 120 pages € 35,- With texts ( English/Japanese) by Eric Himmel, editor in chief Abrams Books NYC and Stacey James Clarkson art director Harper’s Magazine NYC. You can order the book here or contact 916press In November 2014 I visited Nagano, on the Japanese island of Honshu, where the …
In 2005, Charlotte Dumas travelled to Norway and Sweden, New York and Colorado to create portraits of the majestic canines in her series Reverie. Despite her close proximity to the wolves in her photographs, Dumas reveals the vast distance between the world of humans and wolves as her photographs portray the …
In November 2014 Charlotte Dumas began photographing the eight native horse breeds of Japan. Once necessary for farming and transportation, most of these indigenous breeds have lost their practical purpose and have declined in number. Mostly confined to small islands, the horses have never been able to migrate, and their …
This small sized book collects 70 Polaroids made between 2002 and 2012 showing Dumas’ various subjects within their different environments and locations. Texts by Paul Roth, Michel Frizot, and Marieke Wiegel. The polaroids, taken from all angles and throughout the day, give a good impression of how Charlotte approaches and studies …
Anima features the caisson horses of Arlington National Cemetery in the United States. This is the national burial ground where U.S. service members are buried, and is located outside the country’s capital city of Washington, D.C. These animals are among the few left to perform a duty for mankind that dates …
The film Work Horse shows a day of the life of two workhorses, Tarsan and Tarmo, that work in the woods in the North of Sweden pulling logs from the forest. Their life is simple and mundane and their work repetitive. You see them together as a team, as friends, …