Osamu Kanemura - Gate Hack Eden

Beginning as a single body comprised of hundreds of stacked photographs, drawings, and film stills, each book is a single fragment of this greater entity, which has been cut into a thousand uniform pieces, rendering in physical form the practice of photographer Osamu Kanemura. Like an edifice rising out of a newly formed distance, images now severed and removed from original intention run in parallel with Kanemura’s own edifice of thought in describing the mediums used as being formed by an accumulation of traces and fragments, their essence becoming clear once they have become free from the utility of reproducing the subject. Totaling 1,648 pages, divided into 5 “modules” which stack and interlock forming a structure which can both be itself fragmented or continuous, the hundreds of splintered images interwoven together, their remnants layered in a shifting order, consolidating to form a ruin object with a seemingly infinite number of unique instances, the now cracked surfaces existent but scattered like ghostly rubble over a vast plain.