Haruhiko
Kawaguchi finds couples in nightclubs or bars that are willing to be vacuum-sealed
for his photographs. The couples embrace
on the floor as close as possible while a long white tube attached to a vacuum
is inserted into the bag. All of the air
is removed while the photographer counts down from ten to stand on a box to
snap the photo. The photographer makes
use of the flash on the camera perhaps to show the creases and areas of suction
in the bag.
The artist wants
to visually show the intimate “closeness” these couples share. He is expressing a different way to view
couples as being “one” with each other.
In these photographs they are packed so tightly that from a quick glance
they can be viewed as one person.
I initially
thought that the images were edited completely adding the vacuum-wrap
digitally. I responded with a bit of
fear or nervousness viewing the images as well as a video displaying the
process. These are living people that
have allowed the photographer to place them in a claustrophobic setting while
slowing removing their air. That is a
frightening thought but yet a unique idea that yielded well composed
photographs.
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