Others From The Future (Signed)

Ken Kitano,Others From The Future (Signed)

Ken Kitano
Others From The Future (Signed)

Photographs: Ken Kitano

Publisher: Bookshop M

68 pages

Year: 2021

Price: 25

Comments: Sewn softcover, 29 x 20 cm. Text in English and Japaneses. Limted edition of 500. Signed copy.

“Others from the Future”, an inquiry of the world beyond our limits in the form of a photogram portrait series of babies.
Starting from a chance encounter with an obstetrician familiar with Ken Kitano’s work, the artist began to create a series of photograms – photographs created without the use of camera or lens – of newborn babies, or ‘beings that had not existed in this world a few hours earlier’. Shot in total darkness, the results remain a mystery until the print is fully developed, revealing their subjects in two-color silhouettes that capture several moments at once.

“I found myself thinking more and more about them. Where do babies come from? What kind of a world do they exist in before they enter ‘this world’? Will I ever return to that other world?”
— from Ken Kitano’s afterword (included in Japanese and in English translation)


Ken Kitano,Others From The Future (Signed)

Ken Kitano,Others From The Future (Signed)

Ken Kitano,Others From The Future (Signed)

Ken Kitano,Others From The Future (Signed)

Ken Kitano,Others From The Future (Signed)

Ken Kitano,Others From The Future (Signed)

Ken Kitano,Others From The Future (Signed)

Ken Kitano,Others From The Future (Signed)

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