Trace Elements (2008)

Number of works: 99; Size of work: 28.0 x 18.7 cm (11.02 x 7.36 inch); Technique: gelatin-silver print and Type C print;  All photographs are mounted onto the Alpolic (2 mm).  Production year: 2008

with captioning booklet

In 1973, Furuya boarded the Trans - Siberian railway and headed for Europe. After settling in Graz, he began taking photographs depicting people's inner psychological states and the unseen borders existing in a society that was still under tight state control. Since 1985, when his wife Christine took her own life, Furuya has made several books from the photos he had taken of her. Each is called Mémoires, and their production sees him go through a process of editing and reediting, looking over the photos again and again, reading and rereading them for a sense of meaning and time. A total of 99 works are shown, including the series "State Border," "Limes: Images of the Wall Seen from East Berlin,'' ''Gravitation,'' portraits of Christine and other works not previously exhibited. This grand and detailed display is an exploration of that which resides between photographic regression and time and at the border of personal and public memory.

From the exhibition catalogue "Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia'', 2008

© Shihoko Iida, 2008



© Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 2008
© Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 2008
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Installation view: Tokyo and Sydney
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Pictures of this work
Graz 1978
Graz 1978
© s.furuya
Graz 1978
Graz 1978
© s.furuya
Graz 1978
Graz 1978
© s.furuya
Izu 1978
Izu 1978
© s.furuya
Wien 1979
Wien 1979
© s.furuya
Graz 1979
Graz 1979
© s.furuya
Graz 1979
Graz 1979
© s.furuya
Guessing 1979
Guessing 1979
© s.furuya
graz 1981
graz 1981
© s.furuya
Rattersdorf 1981
Rattersdorf 1981
© s.furuya
Schattendorf 1981
Schattendorf 1981
© s.furuya
Fischemend 1982
Fischemend 1982
© s.furuya
Wien 1982
Wien 1982
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Wien 1982
Wien 1982
© s.furuya
Wien 1983
Wien 1983
© s.furuya
Graz 1983
Graz 1983
© s.furuya
Graz 1983
Graz 1983
© s.furuya
Wien 1983
Wien 1983
© s.furuya
Wien 1983
Wien 1983
© s.furuya
Wien 1983
Wien 1983
© s.furuya
Leibnitz 1983
Leibnitz 1983
© s.furuya
Wien 1983
Wien 1983
© s.furuya
Graz 1983
Graz 1983
© s.furuya
Graz 1983
Graz 1983
© s.furuya
Dresden 1984
Dresden 1984
© s.furuya
Dresden 1984
Dresden 1984
© s.furuya
Graz/East Berlin 1985
Graz/East Berlin 1985
© s.furuya
Venice 1985
Venice 1985
© s.furuya
East Berlin 1986
East Berlin 1986
© s.furuya
Kapfenberg 1988
Kapfenberg 1988
© s.furuya
Rostock 1985
Rostock 1985
© s.furuya
Potsdam 1985
Potsdam 1985
© s.furuya
East Berlin 1985
East Berlin 1985
© s.furuya
East Berlin 1986
East Berlin 1986
© s.furuya
Graz 1985
Graz 1985
© s.furuya
New York 2001
New York 2001
© s.furuya
Graz 1994
Graz 1994
© s.furuya
Graz 2000
Graz 2000
© s.furuya
New York 2000
New York 2000
© s.furuya
Graz 1987
Graz 1987
© s.furuya
Deutschlafnitz 2005
Deutschlafnitz 2005
© s.furuya
Graz 1997
Graz 1997
© s.furuya
Rostock 1985
Rostock 1985
© s.furuya