#Sayuri Ichida

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Sayuri Ichida

Absentee #190, 2021

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Trinidad, Cuba, 2018 - by Sayuri Ichida (1985), Japanese/English

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Photo par Sayuri Ichida

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Deja Vu

Remembering a dollhouse

In my work I look for beauty in scenes that evoke a sense of nostalgia and timelessness, two elements that I believe are fundamental to all of my photography. In early 2016, I went on a day trip to a town in Upstate New York. While walking I saw a big house that reminded me of a dollhouse I used to play with when I was a small child in Japan. Much like when I was a child, I imagined the lives of people passing through this house, but now as an adult, I also imagined all of the past and future lives that would play out in it through time. I experienced a strong sense of deja vu that seemed to stretch from my own present moment towards both my past and my future. That experience inspired me to shoot this series. Following my trip to Upstate New York, I used Google Maps to plan trips to other small towns near New York City where I thought I would find similar houses. I only used my camera to capture those houses that I felt I had seen before and that invoked in me a strong feeling of deja vu.

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Absentee — Sayuri Ichida

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Sayuri Ichida

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Sayuri Ichida

Absentee #263, 2021

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Phoka - by Sayuri Ichida (1985), Japanese/English

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Exhibition | Shadow/Figure: Selections from the Light Work Collection in the Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery

I am happy to share that Heads Bowed in Assembled Construction (2018) Light Work’s Fall exhibition. Curated by Victor Rivera, Light Work’s Exhibitions and Collection Coordinator, with donated work by recent artists-in-residence: David Alekhougie, Liz Johnson Artur, Wills Brewer, Gary Burnley, Mercedes Dorame, Sayuri Ichida, Yi Hsuan Lai, Mollie McKinley, Christie Neptune, Ahndraya Parlato, and Bianca and Riel Sturchio. The exhibition will run from Tuesday, September 3 until Friday, October 11, 2024. 

“The work was selected first, based on casual visual associations, color palette, or unexpected synchronicity. The theme then followed, emerging out of the artistic micro–climate created by a coalescence of various purposes and approaches of the individual artists. Shadow/Figure as a title is a suggestion for possible routes to take to read the images. In the most literal sense, Shadow/Figure can be seen simply as the visual elements in a photograph. In another reading, the “shadow figure” as an idea references the presence of a spirit or ghostly apparition, or the specter of death and grief. Seen through a psychoanalytical lens, the shadow contains parts of the self that are repressed or concealed from the conscious mind. Or, from a societal perspective, it is suggestive of the most brutal aspects of humanity, including the immeasurable violence humans inflict upon one another and the natural environment, with consequences that reverberate through generations.” —Victor Rivera 

The images reflect an atmosphere that is visceral, symbolic, and surreal, with formal and metaphorical connections and meanings, on the surface and beyond. 

Source: https://www.lightwork.org/archive/shadow-figure-selections-from-the-light-work-collection/

Shadow/Figure: Selections From The Light Work Collection September 3 – October 11 Location: Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery Curated by Victor Rivera, Light Work’s Exhibitions and Collection Coordinator