18 April 2014
Location: P3 art and environment / P3 Project Space

Taking the form of a slide show, the first part of this event introduced Ayako Mogi’s previous works, while mainly focusing on her photo book travelling tree. After that, P3 director Takashi Serizawa interviewed the artist herself, as well as art director Bunpei Yorifuji and editor/publisher Kimi Himeno, in a talk session with the aim to pin down the book’s unique appeal.

About Ayako Mogi’s photo book travelling tree 
Ayako Mogi’s long-awaited photo book travelling tree was published by Akaaka Art Publishing Inc. at the end of 2013. It contains photographs that momentarily capture various scenes from the artist’s private daily life in Europe, where she had lived for twelve years, and presents them as mysteries that are difficult to put into words. Trees on a lakeside, soft curtains shutting out the sunlight, the churning surface of the sea, slices of toasted bread, little children, sceneries in the snow, traces, shadows… These photographs seem to inspire those who look at them, to reconstruct in their own minds those “things” that they find as common threads behind each of the pictures. Mogi’s works, whether they are photographs or movies, are charged with a sense of wonderment and affection about existing in the “here and now.”