Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu: Looper Syndicate & Sincerity Department Loyal Division

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dieFirma is pleased to announce the relaunch of their Cooper Square location with site-specific installations by celebrated Japanese photographers Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu for their New York City debut. Their immersive installations, one on each floor of dieFirma, are extraordinarily sensorial. The viewers are not only invited to look at, but really to interact physically with an amazing array of prints, books, and photographic objects. Bold and rich, aesthetically as well as politically, their work is a reaction and an antidote to our isolating digitized world.

In his largest installation to date, Kanemura’s Looper Syndicate displays 20,000 color prints applied in a sprawling, immersive wall collage, alongside a video projection. Famous for his carefully framed black and white Tokyo cityscapes, Kanemura found it liberating to spontaneously shoot the city’s colorful signs and shapes with a compact digital camera.

Simultaneously, Komatsu’s Sincerity Department Loyal Division presents an entirely new environment for her award-winning installation made of precariously arranged black and white silver gelatin prints densely covering the wall and floor, long rolls of uncut photographic paper draping from the ceiling, and 8mm film screened in a CRT monitor. Visitors are invited to step on layers of photographs that line the floor, reminiscent of construction sites filled with overlooked and discarded debris.

Both exhibitions display a series of Artists’ Books created specifically for dieFirma.