Between Night and Day
Most of Sakiko Nomura’s (*1957) male models show a frail side, removed from any sense of masculinity. The naked bodies of her friends convey instead a humanity, a sad, bounded warmth reflected in the atmospheric nighttime light that is more cloaked than revealed. It is an artificial light that can itself become the subject of the photograph. It is an illumination that emphasizes the darkness, paying it respect, and protecting its secrets. The intimacy of the portraits of men resting in hotel beds carry themselves forward in the landscapes and city images, as they glow warmly and vitally out of the darkness. The unknown hours between morning and night appear to be preferred by Sakiko Nomura, who was a longtime assistant of the spectacular Nobuyoshi Araki, from whom she learned a very different, black and white, accentuated and drastic handling with the erotic. But she managed, albeit, to find her own pictorial language, which is disconnected from any superficial effect, and conveys a reflective melancholy of man’s being at the mercy of life and the passing of time. Sakiko Nomura’s images are impressions of peace in the twists of life, of the light between night and day, of the hopeful expectation of these and other coming changes. They are images of immense beauty that are enhanced through the vulnerability and momentariness of the model and the anonymous scenery.
| 1967 | born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Pref., Japan |
| 1990 | Graduated Kyushu Sangyo University, Faculty of Fine Arts (Department of Photography) |
| 1990 | Began studying under Nobuyoshi Araki |
| since1991 | Photographer by Aat Room, founded by Nobuyoshi Araki |
| present | working with the Aat in Tokyo |
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
| 2004 | Naked Time, Kim Young Seob Photo Gallery, Seoul |
| SECRET HONEY, Galerie Claudia Delank, Cologne | |
| Shonenno-toki, Sora (Boys time, Sky), art space BAKU, Fukuoka | |
| 2003 | Theater Moon, Solaria Plaza, Fukuoka |
| Kapla 3, art space BAKU, Fukuoka | |
| Himitsu (Secret Honey), Gallery Naruyama, Tokyo | |
| 2002 | Cosmos, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo |
| 25 loves, seamall, Shimonoseki | |
| 2001 | Kapla 2, art space BAKU, Fukuoka |
| 2000 | Galleria Dryphoto Arte Contemporanea, Prato |
| Ai-no-jikan (Love time), art space BAKU, Fukuoka | |
| Ai-no-jikan (Love time), La Camera, Tokyo | |
| 1999 | Kapla, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo |
| antwerpen, art space BAKU, Fukuoka | |
| 1998 | Han-geshou, art space BAKU, Fukuoka |
| A Ripple in the Silence, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi | |
| 1997 | Sangatsu Onna (March Woman), gallery EVE, Tokyo |
| Kioku (Memory) + Kehai (Sign), NADiff, Tokyo | |
| Hadakano-jikan (Naked Time), gallery Verita, Tokyo | |
| Yuragi (fluctuation), art space BAKU, Fukuoka | |
| 1996 | A Ripple in the Silence, art space BAKU, Tokyo |
| Hikari-no-Jikan (Light Time), gallery Verita, Tokyo | |
| 1995 | gallery-oishi, Fukuoka |
| art space BAKU, Fukuoka | |
| Yume-Kobo BAKU, Fukuoka | |
| 1994 | Hadaka-no-Heya (Naked Room), apt gallery, Tokyo |
| 1993 | Hari-no-nai-Tokei (Clock without hand), egg gallery, Tokyo |
| 2006 | Sommer Accrochage, Photographien von Uckey Star und Sakiko Nomura, Galerie Claudia Delank, Galerie für zeitgenössische ostasiatische Kunst |
| Peres Projects, Los Angeles. A Lover's Discourse: Araki, Annette Kelm, Terence Koh, Sakiko Nomura, Heinz Peter Knes, Marcos Rosales (Curated by Dean Sameshima) | |
| Galerie Claudia Delank. Artists: Star, Uckey, Nomura, Sakiko | |
| 2004 | Modern Style in EAST ASIA 2004, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing |
| WOMEN MEET PRIDE, Spiral, Tokyo | |
| Modern Style In East Asia 2004 in Kyoto, Sfera Archive, Kyoto | |
| CET04, Tokyo | |
| 2003 | KEEP IN TOUCH: Positions in Japanese Photography, Kunsthaus Graz Space 4, Graz |
| 2001 | Strategies, Rupertinum, Salzburg; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano; The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino;Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel |
| The genealogy of modern photography 2, Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo | |
| Three Rooms, epSITE, Tokyo | |
| 2000 | The 1st Korea-Japan photo biennale, Embassy of Japan, Indeco Gallery, Seoul |
| From a Distance..., Galerie Almine Rech, Paris | |
| 1999 | Holland Festival: Attack, Arti et acmicitae, Amsterdam |
| Iro-no-aru-fukei (Scenery with color), epSITE, Tokyo | |
| Tokyo Shock, Galerie Edition Objektiv, Cologne | |
| 1997 | The Desire & The Void (with Nobuyoshi ARAKI, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, Miyako ISHIUCHI and others), Kunsthalle, Vienna; Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel |
| Tama Vivant, Tama Art University, Tokyo | |
| 1996 | Yutaka (Rich), Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima |
| 1995 | New Tokyo Photographers, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo |
Books/Catalogs (Selection)
Kuroneko (A Black Cat), Tokyo, Privately Published 2002
Scobul Somegorou, Tokyo, Magazine House 2002
Ai no Jikan (Love Time), Tokyo, BPM 2000
Ichikawa Somegorou 27, Tokyo, Fusosha 2000
Yami no Oto (A Ripple in the Silence), Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum 1999
Hadaka no Jikan (Naked Time), Tokyo, Heibonsha 1997
Hadaka no Heya (Naked Room), Aat Room, Tokyo 1994
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