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In 1990 Narahashi opened her own gallery space 03 FOTOS and showed the “NU-E” series in seventeen exhibitions between 1992 and 1997, the results of which were published as a photobook in 1997. Through these works our imaginations can perhaps expand to encompass the ocean that occupies some 70 per cent of the planet, where the remaining land represents the subject of conflicts for over the course of human history.
In 1998 she won the Photographic Society of Japan, New Photographer Award, and a decade later she received the 24th Higashikawa Prize, the Domestic Photographer Award.
ASAKO NARAHASHI (b.
Narahashi’s first photos were taken on a trip to the Kyushu region and then closer to the main island of Okinawa Prefecture and Taketomi Island, acting like a diary.
The year 1989 marked a turning point in Japan, moving away from the era Moriyama and other Provoke artists experienced the 1960s. In 1989 she held her first solo exhibition Dawn in Spring, which was published as a photobook under the same title in 2023.
Her awards include the Newcomer’s Award of the Photographic Society of Japan in 1998, the Society of Photography Award in 2004, and the Higashikawa Awards for Domestic Photographer Award in 2008.
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Narahashi Asako
Born in Tokyo.
Graduated from Waseda University, majoring in art of the faculty of Literature.
Participated in FotoSession in school days.
After graduation, started on one-man shows, opened the foot gallery 03FOTOS.
Lives in Tokyo.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Biwako , Gallery Main, Kyoto
2013 Horikawa Horizon, Cyukyo University Art Gallery C-Square, Nagoya
2012 seen when too far away Amsterdam, Kurohime, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
2012 in the plural, Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
2011 Coming Closer and Getting Further Away, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2010 Asako Narahashi, Ilan Engel Gallery, Paris
2009-10 Coming Closer and Getting Further Away, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 half awake and half asleep in the water, Gun Galley, Stockholm
2009 Coming Closer and Getting Further Away, Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo
2009 funiculi funicula, Port Gallery T, Osaka
2008 half awake and half asleep in the water, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Koeln
2008 another side, Kurenbo, Tokyo
2008 half awake and half asleep in the water, Yossi Milo Gallery, N.Y.
2007 half awake and half asleep in the water 06/07, Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
2005 half awake and half asleep in the water 04/05, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
2004 half awake and half asleep in the water, BankART1929, the Holl of Basyamichi, Yokohama
2003 funiculi funicula, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
2003 half awake and half asleep in the water 2003, il tempo, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
2002 half awake and half asleep in the water, il tempo, Tokyo
2002 Kabuki no Kuni 02, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
2001 Recent Works, 03FOTOS, Tokyo
2001 NU-E’ Misterijas Dokumentalitate , Latvijas Fotografijas Muzejs, Riga
2000 Kabuki no Kuni , Studio Ebis Photo Gallery, Tokyo
1999 NU-E–selected in Tokyo, il tempo, Tokyo
1998 NU-E, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
1992-97 NU-E series(17 times), 03FOTOS, Tokyo
1992 Umaretuki no Hiru to Yoru, a part of ASG Garanya Final Exhibitions, Nagoya
1991 Kagetomo, 03FOTOS, Tokyo
1990 Mata Yuku Hito, 03FOTOS, Tokyo
1989 Dawn in Spring (3 times), Gallery Kaido, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 Mons 2015 / Regards de Femmes, Mons Maison Folie, Mons
2014 Songs from the Heart, Breda Photo, Breda
2013-14 A Sense of Place, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco
2013 Edo Pop The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints, Japan Society Gallery N.Y.C.
2013 2 years after, Nature, Art, and Requiem, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Mito
2012 Sweet & Salt Water and the Dutch, Kunsthal Rotterdam
2010 Troubles de l’objectif, Hospice d’ Havre, Tourcoing, France
2010 Summit of the Six, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai
2009 Japan meets China–Our Future reflected in Contemporary Art, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya
2008 Water in Photography, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
2008 Heavy Light, ICP, NY.
2006 Rapt!
1959 Tokyo, Japan) earned a degree from the School of Letters, Art, and Science of Waseda University in 1989. “NU-E” is the Japanese term for a legendary, monstrous creature whose head is that of a monkey, whose legs are those of a tiger, and who has a snake’s tail. She began exploring photography as an art student and in the mid-1980's she joined the photography group Photo Session led by the renowned photographer Daido Moriyama.
Following the huge critical success of half awake and half asleep in the water, Narahashi has continued to produce numerous photobooks and exhibited her work throughout the world in solo shows and themed exhibitions. Since it has lost a sense of being anchored on solid ground, the angle can sometimes be random, in many cases inclined.
She later published them in the book half awake and half asleep in the water (2007) and continued to develop the theme in her series Ever After and Coming Closer and Getting Further Away. It heralded the end of the Showa era and start of the Heisei, the introduction of the consumption tax, the impending end of Japanese economic development, and, for the artist, her debut as a photographer after graduation.
It was under this title that the artist tried to capture something of the nature of Japanese society, where developed cities and rural countryside coexist alongside each other, after the myth of economic growth had collapsed.
Along with these black-and-white images in the series “NU-E,” Narahashi began taking a series of colored photographs titled “as half awake and half asleep in the water,” which was accumulated in a photobook published in 2007 with the same title as the series title.
This book is composed of black-and-white photos depicting motifs that resonate with the principles of are bure boke (grainy, blurred and out-of-focus) established by Moriyama, while remaining slightly different. She lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.
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Asako Narahashi was born in Tokyo.
Each work is titled to reflect where it was taken, but what we see in the work is totally different from our ordinary point of view. Her work has been featured in international galleries, museums, and publications and is held in permanent collections worldwide including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
This series, which is still ongoing, consists of color photos taken from the sea facing towards the land. The disorienting semi-submerged views are mysterious, beautiful, and provide a strangely compelling perspective on landscape photography. While attending Waseda University, Tokyo, she joined Foto Session workshops by Daidō Moriyama (1938–) in 1986.