Work
Blast # 5414-5419
- 1998-2202
- c-print
- each 38 x 57 cm
- 2004.LB.NH.01-06, LONG TERM-LOAN HAN NEFKENS H+F COLLECTION
River Series / Shadow
- 2002-2004
- Light jet print 9-part work
- each 54 x 49 cm
- 2004.LB.NH.07-15, LONG TERM LOAN HAN NEFKENS H+F COLLECTION
Slow Glass, nrs 02, 17, 21, 35-38, 45, 51, 57, 63, 65, 79, 81, 82, 87, 95, 100, 108
- 2001
- c-print
- each 90 x 120 cm
- 2004.LB.NH.16-33, LONG TERM LOAN HAN NEFKENS H+F COLLECTION
Naoya Hatakeyama shot his River Series while standing in the shallow water of a canalized river that runs straight through Tokyo. Beneath the bustle and expanse of the metropolis, this stream seems to be a hidden and isolated world. The perspective from the straight walls of the embankments gives the image an almost symbolically horizontal dichotomy—the world above, the world below. Other work by Hatakeyama consists of photographs (e.g. the series Blast) showing land reclamations and excavations carried out with the aid of explosives. The desolate and damaged landscape bears the scars of human intervention but nonetheless has its own sense of romance and beauty.