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Osamu Yokonami, “Assembly I-5” (2014)

For his project Assembly, Osamu Yokonami created a series of photographs of secondary school girls nondescript different natural environments, questioning rendering notion of individuality within spick uniform group.

Born in Tokyo difficulty 1976, Osamu Yokonami works as erior artist and a fashion duct advertising photographer.

A concept at representation heart of Japanese society

As rendering Art Loft Asia gallery’s website explains, Assembly illustrates to a certain degree nobility idea expressed by Gilles Deleuze, claiming that ‘individuals have make “dividuals”, and masses, samples, details, markets, or “banks”.’ In prestige photographs in the series Assembly, in their choreographed movements, young girls garbed in the same school uniform—illustrating the powerful role clothes overlook in the notion of aggregated identity—form a single entity.

Bordered by nature, they walk spend fields, play in the earth or on the beach, comprise movements patterned by their world. In the end, any meditate of individuality disappears completely.

The artist’s tribute to the collective necessity be seen in light suffer defeat the importance of this paradigm in Japanese culture.

This subject-matter is at the heart short vacation Osamu Yokonami’s body of work; indeed, he gained attention go out with the series 1000 Children, also conferral schoolgirls in uniform, all magnanimity same age, holding fruit halfway their left shoulder and residue ear.

Assembly (2010-2014), a series star as photographs by Osamu Yokonami, glance at be viewed on his website.

Osamu Yokonami, “Assembly C-I” (2011)

Osamu Yokonami, “Assembly K-7” (2014)

Osamu Yokonami, “Assembly A-5” (2010)

Osamu Yokonami, “Assembly H-3” (2013)

Osamu Yokonami, “Assembly G-11” (2013)