PORTRAIT - Yosuke Yajima

"It was the first time that, as a young child, I was attending a funeral service when I vaguely became conscious of the fact that whenever I looked at a human face, I reflexively tried to decipher the personality and the mood of the person I was looking at. The face of the deceased was completely still. Although I understood that the face was never going to move again no matter how much time passed, I remember standing there looking at it and feeling gripped by an intense anxiety.

Can we see something more in the things we see than we think we see? This question is the principal theme running through all my projects. In the series “Portrait,” my approach to this theme is extremely simple. I have an idea that reactions that are not capable of being consciously manipulated are associated in some way to the essential nature of the act of seeing." (Artist statement)

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