
Tokyo Fishgraphs | 2020
- Publisher
- Libraryman
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 978-91-88113-59-7
- Specifications
- Offset printed paperbound hardcover
22.8 x 26.1 cm
80 pages
70 colour plates
Linen thread bound
Blind embossing on spine and back cover
Tipped-in image on front cover
Dustcover with typography in black foil
Blue headband
Shortlisted, Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards 2023, Author Book Award
The series is an attempt to explore the origin of the eccentricity of Japanese visual culture through the use of traditional methods, by composing a fictional documentary for the audienceless 2020 Olympics, postponed because of the restrictions of the pandemic. During that phantasmal time the artist decided to turn the strange experience into a series of contemporary Mitate-e, a genre within Japanese art that wittily plays with allusions, puns and gaps in what we understand, by depicting and parodying historical and traditional events.