2018, Site-specific installation, printed on PVC, wooden structure, 550 x 725 x 400 cm, exhibition NEW PLANET PHOTO CITY - William Klein and Photographers Living in the 22nd Century, museum 21_21 Design sight, Tokyo
Scanning is a repository of details of bystanders in several European countries, as reductively descriptive as the general background quality of contemporary European cities.
In this series Fujiwara takes the details of the urban unconsciousness and the heat of human beings that are being emitted on the road represents them with elaborate, super-realistic images, and exposes the dynamism that is encapsulated inside photographic images. By identifying, on a visual image, various “codes” of a subject, such as a face, clothing, gestures, movements, and hairstyles, and by converting, compressing, and magnifying them, Fujiwara tries to drag down the subject to nobody. “Scanning#1” is one of such spatial practices, and can be said to be an attempt to swing back photography to its original starting point (zero), stirring the texture and basic foundation of new photography in the urban landscape.