The Sala de la Muralla (Wall Room) of the Principal Peset Hall of Residence hosts from today 8 February, the exhibition `mu – jô’, une invitation à Nara’ of the French photographer Françoise Nuñez. The exhibition is composed by thirty-three pictures taken in Nara, capital of Japan during the 8th century, and in Kyoto, which show, among other locations, the Sanshozenji temple, a recongnised Aikido training centre. The opening of the exhibition will be at 19:30.
These thirty-three photographs taken by Françoise Nuñez, as David Le Breton has said, remain faithful to the place where they were born: the Sanshozenji temple, a recognized Aikido training centre in Nara, and in Kyoto. The work of Nuñez comes from the confluence of the arts of “do” –the search for the perfect gesture- and the notion of “mu- jô”, which highlights the continuous condition of things, its constant change from a state to another. According to Junichiro Tanizaki in El elogio de la sombra, these photographs also recognize the infinite shades of darkness and light, based on the suspicion that beauty is an indecisive and uncertain surface, also precarious and difficult to catch.
Many of these photographs show scenes of Aikido training, the movement, the body during technique which reminds of the gestures of flamenco dancing, a culture linked to the author.
These black and white photographs (24 x 35 centimetres) were edited in 2011 in France by the publishing house Yellow Now, accompanied by a caption written by David Le Breton.
Françoise Nuñez began photographing in 1975 during a trip to Spain and she studied the photographic technique in the photography workshop of Jean Dieuzaide. She has worked in Spain, Greece, India, Turkey, Poland, Ethiopia, Senegal and Japan. These photographs were taken in Nara and Kyoto in 2005. She is represented by the Galerie Camera Obscura (Paris).
Last update: 8 de february de 2013 08:02.
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