At Les Rencontres d’Arles, a reconfiguration of Image Shop Camp – the independent gallery founded by Daido Moriyama and his students in 1970s Tokyo – serves as a tribute to its radical installations and ideas
Now, nearly half a century later, Camp has flown to Arles, the ancient French city that serves as the playground to the venerable photography festivaleach summer. “The fly has gone viral!” exclaims Clément Kauter, the co-curator ofat Galerie Sinibaldi, in reference to Camp’s iconic bug logo. “Everyone in Arles is talking about the show. After all, it’s a satellite pop-up which echoes how things were in the festival’s early days.
Le Plac’Art Photo, a bookstore with an emphasis on Japanese rarities, and has for many years been collecting pieces ofinauguration banner,” Kauter explains. “Then, we acquired a large number of exhibition flyers, followed by an incredible series of 14 vintage prints by seven of the collective’s members shown in 1978. As we already had the specialan exhibition that would be a tribute to Camp.
Kauter’s exhibition, with its startling scenography, certainly makes the most of every inch of space. Osamu Takizawa’s dreamlike evocations of his wife catch the eye on the ground floor, which is laid out in a classic, institutional manner. However, it is upon ascending the staircase – where ’s confrontational shots hang on tarpaulins – that one enters a wild, reconfigured Camp. One wall covered with colourful reproductions of original Camp flyers serves as the backdrop for Susumu Fujita’s photographs which appeared inmagazine in 1984, while the adjacent wall – plastered by silver, screen-printed flies – displays his documents of discos in Tokyo’s Roppongi district.
“Arles continues to attract more and more people from all over the world,” says Kauter. “While the first week brings in a professional audience, the rest of the summer is more diverse and public-oriented. With the exhibition, the idea is to travel to other cities around the world, with the ultimate goal of returning to Tokyo. That would be the final renaissance for the members.”
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