Sayuri Ichida E3 2JH
- siladan010
- Jan 30, 2024
- 1 min read
Sayuri Ichida is a UK-based Japanese artist whose meditative photography focuses on themes of memory, identity, and experience. In her series "E3 2JH", Ichida takes inspiration from the Czech photographer Jan Svoboda's photos of sculptures from the 1970s, and transposes them into the 21st century. The title of the series is the postcode the shoot took place in, London's ever-changing Hackney neighborhood, which has been heavily gentrified. Ichida's photos are a deep breath of fresh air, a quiet moment in a chaotic world.
Artist:
(Czech, 1934–1990)
Jan Svoboda sought to redefine the language and perception of photography, deconstructing the process and form, playing with subject matter and presentation and considering the medium in relation to painting and sculpture, and within the traditions of Symbolism, Romanticism and Modernism. His self-reflective, speculative works paved the way for wider experiments with photographic appropriation and mark him out as a pioneer of conceptual photography.
The exhibition Jan Svoboda: Against the Light at The Photographers' Gallery (21 Feb - 20 Sep 2020) marks the first major UK presentation of Czech photographer, Jan Svoboda (1934–1990) since his first solo exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery back in 1982.
