Czułość

Nampei Akaki (b.1977)

LOVES PHOTOS! SPENT HIS YOUTH IN SAUDI ARABIA, SINGAPORE AND ENGLAND. NOW BASED IN TOKYO, JAPAN.

Nampei Akaki is a photographer. Or rather “an ink-jet printer artist”. The reality he constantly records via his hyper-individual perception is immediately transformed into objects of various natures, should they medium be paper, fabric, plastic or a piece of wall. The forthwith method results in a feeling of the copied reality still pulsing in the resulting objects. While projecting the map of his perceptions onto the exhibition space, Akaki Nampei describes the observed world coherently, but avoids referring to the common definitions or imposing an additional sense over them. The language of this description is the arrangement of the structures, the reflecting lights, the dashes of colour; all that positioned in perpetual series of resemblance. Nampei attempts to subjectively define the reality using the universal means of photography. He does that by the constantly repeating the layouts and creating a stream of identified relations while still being excited by what he sees.

SELECTED WORKS

solo exhibitions:

2016 | Snakey Photobjects | Czułość | Warsaw

2015 | The Gangway | Czułość | Warsaw

2013 | Zenzen Kenko | Gray Wood Gallery | Tokyo | Japan

2013 | Go Up Get Together | Czułość | Warsaw | Poland

2012 | So On | Gallerie412 | Tokyo | Japan

2012 | Home Centre | Tractor | Tokyo | Japan

2012 | All Lights Fuji | Moscow Lounge | Tokyo | Japan

2012 | Mooon Light Strike Game | Kojimachi Gallery | Tokyo | Japan

2012 | Too New News | Tobisha | Tokyo | Japan

2012 | Moon Light Strike Game | Kojimachi Gallery | Tokyo | Japan

2012 | Idee Life In Art “Hope Super Lights” | Muji Shinjuku | Tokyo | Japan

2011 | “Right Gallery Right Shop | Timeout Cafe&Diner/Gallery Space | Tokyo | Japan

2011 | Fool Moon Pool | Kojimachi Gallery | Tokyo | Japan

2010 | 2/28 | Mama De Mimi | Tokyo | Japan

2010 | Handbag | Japonica | Kyoto | Japan

2010 | Handbag | The Last Gallery | Tokyo | Japan

2010 | Bine Bine Combine!! | Combine Nakameguro | Tokyo | Japan

selected group exhibitions:

2014 | Very Contemporary | Czułość | Warsaw

2013 | Tokyo Art Book Fair | Tokyo | Japan

2011 | Tokyo Art Book Fair | Tokyo | Japan

2011 | The Cheaper Show_No.10 | Vancouver | Canada

2011 | Boxob | Utrecht | Tokyo | Japan

2010 | 牛窓亜細亜藝術交流祭 | Okayama | Japan

2010 | The Cheaper Show_No.9 | Vancouver | Canada

2010 | The World Cup Of D.I.Y Mag/Zine & Anarchy Book Center | The Last Gallery | Tokyo | Japan

2010 | The Underground Spiritual Game Dune Magazine 17 | The Last Gallery | Tokyo | Japan

2010 | Art Tengoku | 松の湯 | Tokyo | Japan)

2009 | Zine’s Mate | Vacant | Tokyo, Japan)

2009 | Anarchy Book Center | The Last Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

2009 | The NY Art Book Fair 2009 | Moma Ps1 | New York | USA

2005 | Play With Us | Laforet Harajuku | Tokyo | Japan

2005 | Dpp Short Film Show | Eclectic | London | UK

2003 | Homesickslideshow | Notting Hill Art Club | London | UK