Rika Noguchi (Photographer)
Photographer Rika Noguchi is known for his photographs with a unique sense of distance from the subject, and his gaze is sometimes referred to as the "gentile eyes". Until now, I have photographed the night city of Berlin, the sea of Okinawa, the Tanegashima Island Space Center, etc., and have presented works that make real things and phenomena feel like a world of different dimensions. Noguchi visited Nakanoshima, Osaka, and from the summer of 2018 to the spring of 2019, he traveled by foot, bicycle, boat, small airplane, etc., and captured the view from various angles with the camera.
“You don’t start unless you meet first. Meeting is whether your heart moves. From there the work will stand up. So, first of all, I walk and look for something that moves my mind, that’s my research.”
We look back on how Noguchi walked through Nakanoshima, such as the evening business district, park, and the tip of the island.
<Research Schedule>
2018
July 30
16:00-19:00 Walk around Nakanoshima from dusk to night
July 31
5:00-8:00 Walking around Nakanoshima in the early morning
10:00-14:30 Tour the Nakanoshima during the day by bicycle to all the fine alleys
15:00-17:00 Round around Nakanoshima by boat
August 1
10:00-17:00 Research on cultural facilities in Nakanoshima
Osaka City Central Public Hall, Osaka Science Museum, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, OSAKA, Osaka International Convention Center Corp., Osaka Prefectural Nakanoshima Library, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Dojima River Forum, Nakanoshima Kosetsu Museum of Art, Festival Hall, ABC Hall, graf
October 30
16:30-17:30 Kitahama photographed Nakanoshima across the river from Bill River Center
October 31
12:00-14:00 Photograph of the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka construction site below the roof of the The University of Osaka Nakanoshima Center. Photo taken from the lobby of the festival tower West top floor Conrad Osaka, the sky lobby of the festival tower
15:00-17:00 Photograph of the westernmost tip of Nakanoshima from the top floor of Nakanoshima center building. Photograph of Nakanoshima on the opposite bank from the top floor of the Osaka City Central Wholesale Market Management Building
November 1
5:30-7:00 Photograph of Nakanoshima on the other side from the rooftop of OMM build at sunrise
9:30-12:30 Boarding a small plane and photographing Nakanoshima from the sky
15:00-17:00 Walk around Nakanoshima during autumn evening shooting
March 7
13:30-15:30 Photograph of a cleaning boat from Tosabori River to Dojima River
March 8
9:00-14:00 Photographs of people cleaning the Nakanoshima
14:00-16:00 Photograph of the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka underneath the rooftop of The University of Osaka Nakanoshima Center
March 9
9:00-14:00 Photographs of people cleaning the Nakanoshima
15:00-17:30 Photographed while walking in the western part of Nakanoshima
Rika Noguchi| Noguchi Rika
Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1971. Graduated from the Department of Photography at Nihon University in 1994, and after staying in Berlin for 12 years, he has been based in Okinawa since 2016. Major solo exhibitions include "Rika Noguchi Dreaming of Flying" (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004) and "Light is Future" (IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, 2011). He has also participated in numerous international exhibitions of contemporary art, including the Saitama Triennale (2016) and the 21st Sydney Biennale (2018). He has also published a number of works including "Records of Creation" (roshin books, 2017) and "To the Star of Night" (IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, 2016). His works are housed in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the The National Museum of Art, Osaka, the Guggenheim Museum (New York), and the Pompidou Center (Paris).
http://noguchirika.com/
