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What will death bring to us?

My grandmother (Sugako Nakamura) passed away in May 2018. Fortunately it was a peaceful death, so it was a gentle funeral.

A month after that, I did a solo exhibition at Omotesando Hills in Tokyo. Many people saw a picture of my grandmother for the main visual as without being conscious of whether she was alive or dead.

It was a very magical experience for me.

Generally, we usually try to distract our eyes from death. So I attempted to shorten the sense of distance with death.

These pictures are traces of them.

Kenta Nakamura

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