
Yume wo Miru
- Publisher
- Bemojake
- Year
- 2017
- Specifications
- Softcover
28pp
150x210mm
25 full colour
Text in English
This work by Motohiko Hasui, published as a tactile zine, refers to memories as dreams. During a visit to Kanazawa on the west coast of Japan, Hasui realised that his recollections of this place, of the time he would spend there, and even the shared moments with his wife, will soon fade and become fragmented. In the future these moments of reality, crisp and fully formed at the time, will become patchy, where the holes will be filled with imaginations and presumptions. They will become more like dreams, where narrative is skewed and details are lost.
Using a compact digital camera, Hasui overexposed pictures of trees and of his wife, Akane, with his flash. Overexposing digital files means that detailed information is lost forever, and at times additional information is revealed through technical malfunction, such as pixel colouration and the focus loss known as chromatic aberration. The result is mysterious and dazzling: an analogy for the dismantling of existing moments into dreamlike memories.