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🦹‍♂️ ••• @photographyofchina In 201

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@photographyofchina In 2015, French artist Thomas 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.

The series, “No More, No Less”, born from the encounter between Koike and Sauvin, includes new silver prints made from the album’s original negatives. These prints were then submitted to Koike’s sharp imagination, who, with a simple blade and adhesive tape, deconstructs and reinvents the images. However, these purely manual interventions all respect one single formal rule: nothing is removed, nothing is added, “No More, No Less”. In such a context that blends freedom and constraint, Koike and Sauvin meticulously explore the possibilities of an image only made up of itself.

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💫 ••• @belfastphotofestival EXHIBITION: I

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@belfastphotofestival EXHIBITION: I SEE YOU

Artists: Kensuke Koike / Thomas Sauvin
When: 3 - 30 June 21 (All day: Mon - Sun)

Ahead of the #BPF21 launch tomorrow, here's a sneak peek of one of the outstanding exhibitions popping up across the city of Belfast.

Reflecting our era of conspiracy, suspicion and surveillance, a watchful eye is cast over Belfast’s city centre. The work is drawn from a collaborative project by Japanese artist @kensukekoike and French artist and photography collector @thomas_sauvin.

Find out more via the #linkinbio 👆

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