THEME #37Winners2022AUG
SELF-PORTRAIT
SHORT LIST
Statement
Utakis
Utaki resides in a concocted game that presides over it and opens spaces so that one can always imagine other things in an open field. It recreates and confronts models, suggesting to us that tradition is something invented. The work challenges the very notion of tradition, highlighting the performative character of human existence, as the artist produces and updates his own rites of passage. Utaki urges us to look at our own identity issues, recognitions, and estrangements which, from within our particular traditions, places, rituals and habits, do not cease to move and refresh themselves.
Profile
Ricardo TOKUGAWA
Ricardo Tokugawa was born in Brazil and he is a grandson of immigrants from Okinawa.
In photography, he investigates the family, home and the relationship between these two concepts. In 2021 he published his first photobook, Utaki.
Jury selection
作品としての完成度の高さがある。家族(おそらく)とのポートレイトや静物写真なども、「セルフポートレイト」の邪魔になっていない数少ない作品だったけれど、ステイトメントも含めわたしの見たいセルフポートレイトからは少し遠い気がしてしまった。
Links
HP:www.ricardotokugawa.com
Instagram:@ricardo.tokugawa
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