Chanel Nexus Hall will present an exhibition of photographer Kiyohide Hori as its first exhibition of 2022.
Photographer Kiyohide Hori, who studied photography in New York, has continued to make his own works while being active in a wide range of fields, including magazines and advertisements and portrait photography. He has been strongly influenced by Allen Ginsberg, the legendary poet of the Beat Culture in the 1950s, who called for a “return to the primitive” to restore our humanity. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, Hori presented his series “re;HOWL,” in which he took an ironic look at contemporary society. In “RED,” which will be shown for the first time, he turns his gaze inward and tries to answer the question, “Who am I? In addition to the “RED” series, this exhibition will present a three-part series of photographs he has taken since the 1990s, as well as handmade photo books and other materials that might be called the starting point of his creative activities. The exhibition will show Hori’s journey of self-exploration, in which he refers to his works as picture poems.
