小出直穂子/「赤い澱」
KOIDE Nahoko/ akai-ori
ベルベットの壁、薄暗い灯り、それらに照らされる薄っぺらな布団と部屋の闇・・かつて＜赤線＞と呼ばれ売春が行われていた町や、ラブホテルなどの性的な匂いのする場所、建物をカラーネガで撮影した作品。セックスのために作られた虚構の場所で、どれだけさまざまな人間が入り交じりそして消えてきたのか。写真には、静かに積み重ねられた澱のような何かが湿度を持ってまとわりついる。それは被写体となったそれらが滲ませる色の記憶なのかもしれない。
Velvet walls, dim lights, thin futons and darkness of the rooms… These color
negative photos were taken in facilities and places with sexual atmosphere,
such as "LOVE HOTELS" (accommodations for sexual intercourse) and areas once
so-called "AKASEN" where prostitution was practiced. In these fictional places
that were built for sex, uncountable number and kinds of people have come
in and gone away. Inside of the photos, something like dregs that has tiered
up quietly in time is creeping around with high humidity. Possibly, that is
the memory of the color, which oozes out of the objects in the photos.