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@belfastphotofestival I SEE YOU
3 - 30 June 21 (Castle Place)

Reflecting our era of conspiracy, suspicion and surveillance, a watchful eye is cast over Belfast’s city centre.

The work is in fact drawn from a collaborative project by Japanese artist Kensuke Koike and French artist and photography collector Thomas Sauvin.

In 2015, Sauvin acquired an album produced in the early 1980s by an unknown Shanghai University photography student. The album comprises original negatives, silver prints, manuscript comments from an anonymous professor, and shows the student’s diligence in mastering the rules applying to the conventional portrait. This volume was given a second life through the expert hands of Kensuke Koike, a Japanese artist based in Venice, whose practice combines collage and found photography. Using a simple blade and adhesive tape, Koike deconstructed and reinvented the imagery. These purely manual interventions all respected one single formal rule: nothing is removed, nothing is added, “No More, No Less”

This exhibition has been Made possible through the support of the Sasakawa Foundation, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council and Foyle Foundation

Special thanks to @carrollsirishgifts

I See You – Belfast Photo Festival – N.Ireland

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