NATSOUMI – TOKϴYO (signed) discourse

NATSOUMI – TOKϴYO (signed) discourseSelf published 2023 In the middle of nowhere, Natsoumi found herself in the deep mountains of Okuaizu, Fukushima. On snowy days, the artist wore sledges and filmed with a medium format film camera, Zenza Bronica. On the film, the artist recited and followed the melody of the local lullaby and the mountain worship in Northeast Japan that she had heard from her grandmother when she was a child. A comment from the artist: Until 2009, I spent my time in

Jude lures us into peering through windows

Olay is a documentation of Turkey

printed in duotone on Japanese Kasadaka art paper and bound in linen

gaming tables

Bilingual: English / Italian

He took pictures of scenes that could be historical or contemporary phenomena and visited places that have become part of the collective memory

Print size 20x25cm

through the lens of artistic practices and works which insightfully engage with the ongoing contemporaneity of disparate histories and the ever-changing status of the visual in social life

and two old photographs of the Gasparini's family archive

In this highly personal collection of work

but at the same time loneliness abounds in overpopulated cities

contains portraits of his elderly mother sitting in her chair in a retirement community in England