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HANAMI (花見)
2018 - 2021

'Hanami (花 見)' is an artist's book that involves the digitization and editing of an extensive archive of photographs, collages, newspapers, texts and personal objects that Keiichi Inokawa (my grandfather) — Japanese immigrant landed in Brazil as a child — produces and has been collecting for over 60 years. The archive, organized in dozens of books and folders, is still being manually cataloged and bounded up to this day by Keiichi.

The work seeks to express the tensions between the imaginary and the real, formed from my grandfather's nostalgic feeling for his homeland and his constant obsession with creating meaning for the spaces and times witnessed. Similarly, it seeks to represent the acceptance and affection for the daily life of an arranged marriage despite his desire to venture out into the world and write stories.

Reading direction from right to left

104 pages

16 x 20 cm

The japanese word hanami literally means “to contemplate the flowers”, being “flower” in this case the cherry tree. During its blossom — which occurs only once a year and lasts only a few days — the ritual of sitting under its trees to enjoy them with loved ones is traditionally practiced to celebrate a new cycle.

In essence, 'Hanami (花 見)' symbolizes the fundamental meaning of the word: to contemplate the ephemerality of life as an admirable form of existence.

Exhibitions:

Exhibition 'Da diáspora - Identidade, Hibridismo, Diferença' at Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre - RS (April 2019).

Images by Thiéle Elissa

Exhibition 'Espaço do Livro' on 7ª Edição do Pequeno Encontro da Fotografia's website (March 2021).

Conversation about photobooks with Maíra Gamarra and selected artists for 'Espaço do Livro' (March 2021).

Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tq2vD7V-UQ (artist's speech starts at 43:35)

Exhibition 'Mnemomáquina' at Efêmero Festival de Fotografia Experimental, Fortaleza - CE (April 2021).

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Video installation on a building at Fortaleza.

Image: Igor Cavalcante

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Video installation on Fortaleza's street.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf2RZowtgN4&t=747s (artist's work starts at 19:25)

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Exhibit at Efemêro Festival de Fotografia Experimental's website.

Link: https://ifotoce.com.br/festival-efemero/exposicoes/exposicao-mnemomaquina

Convocatória de Fotolivros do Festival ZUM na Biblioteca de Fotografia do Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo - SP, Janeiro de 2022. 

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