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With “Paradigm”, Japanese photographer Satoko Nema explores landscapes as overlapping, flowing experiences. With conscious use of thick, lush colors, Nema’s photographs delve deep into the human sensation of the world. At times indiscernible, at times clear as day, Nema takes us into forests and onto beaches, shows us stars and the glitter of the sun.

“By encountering these landscapes, we are at last encountering anew this ghastly thing that is us. In the gaze of drifting things Satoko Nema’s Paradigm discloses to us this secret of life: the nostalgic traces of a beloved life that we have forgotten or been made to forget remain sheltered, somewhere far into our mind and body, never disappearing.”
(from Ikuo Shinjo’s afterword)