Renato D'Agostin: Tokyo Untitled

Tokyo Untitled is a perfect name for a place in the mind. A place that can only be accessed through the eyes; a visual place.
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Tokyo is enormous because it is Untitled.
These images are the thinnest possible slices of inconceivable urban density. Slices so thin that they must be measured in fractions of light, tiny microscopic moments of DNA in time taken from the huge archeology of a true metropolis.

Ralph Gibson

In Tokyo Untitled D’Agostin isolates himself in the geometries of the Japanese city. He narrates his journey through his experience of the street, describing with the language of abstract images, charged of deep blacks and sharp edges. Dislocating subjects from their realities, D’Agostin depicts his perception of the space around him, the relationship between the city’s architecture and its people, and their interferences. This is emphasized in Tokyo, according to D’Agostin, where he has no reference or connection with the external world, and his sense of disconnection brings him to a discovery of the unseen.

Texts by Eikoh Hosoe & Ralph Gibson. Design by Heartfeld.it

©Photographs Renato D'Agostin