Seven Japanese Photographers on Display in La Spezia

The Fondazione Carispezia in La Spezia hosts a group exhibition of seven Japanese photographers, curated with an installation of small serial environments. The common thread is a profound inner reflection, far from Western canons. Koji Onaka explores memory through landscapes with implicit human traces. Risaku Suzuki, with the series Sakura, invites an ascetic meditation on cherry blossoms. Tomoko Kikuchi gives centrality to marginalized people with the series I and I, portraying Chinese drag queens without frontal faces, addressing the theme of the double. Chino Otsuka enlarges details from old photographs to evoke memories. Lieko Shiga ethnographically documents the village of Kitakama, while Toshiya Murakoshi presents black-and-white landscapes of Fukushima. Chikako Yamashiro closes with a historical-existential video on the Battle of Okinawa. The exhibition invites a cathartic and immersive reading.