Yang SEUNG-WOO


Shinjuku Lost Child

Du 9 Nov au 22 Déc 2017
Vernissage : le jeudi 9 Novembre du 18h à 22h en présence de l’artiste


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in)(between gallery montre pour la première fois la série “Shinjuku Lost Child” de Yang Seung Woo, lauréate du prix 2017 Ken Domon.

Vainqueur 2017 du prix Ken Domon, l’une des récompenses les plus prestigieuses en matière de photographie au Japon, Yang Seung Woo s’impose aujourd’hui comme une figure incontournable de la scène photographique japonaise.

Yang Seung Woo s’exile volontairement au Japon en 1999 pour échapper à la fatalité de sa vie avec les yakuzas, dont il est membre actif depuis l’adolescence. Il décide de s’y installer pour reconstruire sa vie et y apprendre la photographie. C’est à cette époque qu’il découvre le quartier de Shinjuku, à Tokyo. Stupéfait par la misère sociale et la frénésie nocturne qui y règne, il choisit d’entreprendre un travail documentaire qu’il poursuit pendant 18 ans. Saisis par la singularité de son regard et par ses images en noir et blanc contrastés, au flash, le jury a décidé de  récompenser Yang ; et pour la première fois un artiste étranger été mise à l’honneur par le jury du prix Ken Domon.

Les night shots (tirages nocturnes) Yang Seung Woo réalisés à  Shinjuku, pris au gré de ses pérégrinations, saisissent la violence et les déviances d’une société tokyoïte noctambule. Trafiquants de drogues, prostituées, travestis, enfants des rues, vagabonds ou sans-abris défilent sous son objectif. Yang Seung Woo  enregistre de façon abrupte et furtive la vie de ces personnalités hors normes. Le photographe capture ses images en immersion totale. Il vit pendant deux mois avec des travestis qu’il accompagne aux bains ou dans les rues. Son écriture documentaire fait montre d’un souci esthétique et humaniste. La galerie in)(between est fière de montrer pour la première fois en Europe cette série qui a été exposée dans le cadre du prix Ken Domon au salon Nikon à Tokyo et Osaka avant d’entrer dans les collections permanentes du Ken Domon Museum of Photography à Yamagata.

Avec cette exposition la galerie poursuit ainsi son  exploration photographique sur Tokyo, inaugurée par les portraits de passants d’Hiroh Kikai (exposé au Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography et à l’International Center of Photography à New York). La galerie avait également exposé les photos de Tokyo de plusieurs maîtres de la photographie : Susumu Fujita « Silver Eye » (artiste, ex membre de Camp, où il a travaillé en étroite collaboration avec Daido Moriyama et de Koji Onaka) ; Chotoku Tanaka, “TOKYO 1966” (artiste exposé au Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography) ;  Takehiko Nakafuji « STREET RAMBLER – TOKYO » (artiste exposé au Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography) ou Morten Andersen “TOKYO – 20002002”.

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in)(between gallery shows for the first time in Europe the series “Shinjuku Lost Child” by Yang Seung Woo, prize-winner of the 2017 Ken Domon.

Yang SEUNG-WOO, winner of the prize Ken Domon (one of the most prestigious Japanese Photography Awards). Yang Seung Woo stands out as an major player in Today’s Japanese Photographic Scene.

Yang Seung Woo exiled himself voluntarily in Japan back in 1999 somehow escaping his fate life within the Yakuzas world, of which he was a member since his adolescence years. He decided to settle down in Tokyo to reconstruct his life and study photography. It is at that time that he discovered the district of Shinjuku in Tokyo. Stunned by the social poverty and the night-frenzy which reigns there, he chose to undertake a documentary work which he pursued during 18 years. Seized by the peculiarity of its look and by its black and white contrasted and flashed images, the Ken Domon jury decided to reward Yang; and for the first time a foreign artist was granted this honor by the Ken Domon jury.

The night shots Yang Seung Woo made while his wanderings in Shinjuku capture the violence and deviance of a Tokyoite nightlife society. Drug pushers, prostitutes, transvestites, street children, vagrants or homeless people, they all paraded in front of Yang’s lenses. Yang Seung Woo records abruptly and stealthily the lives of these extraordinary personalities. The photographer captures his images in total immersion, as when he lived with homeless and transvestites, He lived/hanged out for about two months with transvestites sharing the intimacy of public baths and the streets. His documentary writing shows an aesthetic and humanistic concern. The gallery is proud to show for the first time in Europe this series which was exhibited at the Ken Domon Awards at Nikon salon in Tokyo and Osaka before entering the permanent collections of the Ken Domon Museum of Photography in Yamagata.

With this exhibition the gallery pursues its photographic exploration on Tokyo, inaugurated by the portraits of passers-by of Hiroh Kikai (exhibited at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and at the international Center of Photography in New York). The gallery had also exhibited the photos of Tokyo of several masters photographers; Susumu Fujita “Silver Eye” (artist, ex member of Camp, where he worked in close collaboration with Daido Moriyama and of Koji Onaka); Chotoku Tanaka “TOKYO 1966 ” (artist exhibited at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography); Takehiko Nakafuji “STREET RAMBLER – TOKYO” (artist exhibited at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography) and Morten Andersen with his series “TOKYO – 20002002” never exhibited before.

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