48. DAIDO MORIYAMA - A SPACE BETWEEN DESIRE AND TERMOIL.
Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective - The Photographers Gallery - LONDON.
Daido Moriyama.
A blur of an unknown street, exhausted tulips surrender, teeth lick, 'I am constantly observing the city', 3am naked, electric light and black shaddows. Araknid paused - ready to scuttle, the exposed metal intestines of a motorbike,
Daido Moriyama.
footprints in the slush, mesh, fish-scales, tiles undulate,'People's desires are endless'. Rubber tires tessellate, stockinged legs, gated fences, observed encounters, tarpaulins sweat, the mannequin severed, all become equal. The
Daido Moriyama.
signature granular of the ingrained, the arousal of the saturated violence of colour, occasional, the darkness of death.'The human world is erotic' Behind glass - laid out as if awaiting a chalk outline - relentlessly passive probe
Daido Moriyama.
printed pages overhead and overheard Moriyama murmurings.'I am always in a state of emotional turmoil' The plethora of an unshelved library - damp as if the first things saved from a fire - neatly, calmly awaiting the next viewer, the next
Daido Moriyama.
voyeur the next body. Forensic and cold to touch, burnt into paper - exotic in weight, erotic in tender - like cigarette paper or cicada wings - cut - cut sharp - detached. 'I don't feel at ease when I am shooting' To inhale these
Daido Moriyama.
sticky sheets is to see the secrets, to feel these ferals, which glisten and undulate with a painful ferocity - tiny breathing dialogues, caught in a
Daido Moriyama.
viewfinders' trap, hooked on an inky intimacy, still wet - so close - the eyelash brush of his window cannot be unseen.
Daido Moriyama.
Daido Moriyama - A Retrospective - The Photographers Gallery - 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW. Until 11 February 2024.
Special thanks: Martin Steininger.