古屋誠一16,字ロングインタヴュー、亡き妻に永遠の生を与えるために
―古屋さんは「生きた墓石」を作っているのではないかと思うことがあります。こういういい方は不謹慎で躊躇われますが、古屋さんは、クリスティーネさんを死者に留まらせたくなくて、繰り返し墓を暴いては壊し、また新しい墓をつくっている。しかも今度は自分の墓も一緒に作ろうとしている。クリスティーネさんの屋根裏部屋の資料整理をしているうちに彼女が生き返り、亡骸に新たな生命が吹き込まれたように感じたとおっしゃっていますが、写真集とは古屋さんにとって「生きた墓石」なのでしょうか。
私にとって写真集とは、私が亡くなって彼女と再会するときに手土産として持っていくために作り続けているものともいえます。報告書ともいえるかもしれません。私が彼女の死とどのように向き合って生きたのかという報告書。手ぶらで再会することなど考えられないことです。その前に、もし私が一人で生活できなくなって老人ホーム行きとなったときに、唯一持参するものとしての写真集を作っているともいえます。認知症が進む中で繰り返し写真集をめくりつつ自分の人生を追体験しながら、泣いたり笑ったりして充実した老人ホーム生活を送っている様子が実にリアルに想像できてほほえましい気分になったりします。認知症の進度のチェックにもなりますし。そしてもうひとつ、重要な理由があります。言葉や文章で語りきれない母だった人の事を息子に、そして孫達にも伝えるために写真集を作っているということです。『Face to Face』の写真集がマルセイユの出版社Chose Communeから届いた翌日に、息子の家の玄関ドアの前に写真集を届けました。新型コロナウイルスによる規制が厳しく、孫達を経由して私に感染するのを恐れて、息子達ともできる限り直接会わない、話さないという状態が続いています。私より息子のほうが老人の感染を危惧しているようです。写真集の中で彼が生まれた以降に私とクリスティーネがお互いを撮影したほとんどの写真に彼も写っていますし、それを彼も初めて見ることになるわけで反応が少し気になりました。その日の夜、六歳の長女と写真集を一緒に見たことや、質問攻めにあったと楽しんだ様子を知らせてきました。娘のおばあさんにあたるクリスティーネが写真ではおばあさんではないので、どうやら娘はちょっと混乱して事態をはっきり把握できなかったようだと。
彼女が土葬されたという事実は、私が死後の彼女と交信していくうえで決定的な意味を持っていたと思います。彼女の死後、私と息子はベルリンからグラーツに戻り彼女の棺を一緒に空港にむかえに行きました。10日足らずの滞在中に葬儀を済ませて、今度は息子と二人でベルリンに戻りました。この短期間の間に墓地を探して、棺を選んで、牧師を手配したりとすべて一人で準備したの
In , Seiichi Furuya left Japan for Europe on board of the Trans-Siberian train. He arrived in Austria where he first settled in Vienna, before moving to Graz where he met Christine Gössler in From this day forward, he started photographing her, in the intimacy of their home in Graz but also during their travels abroad — to Germany, England, Italy…and Japan, their most distant destination. Christine studied art history and worked for the radio, making documentary programs. After the birth of their son in , she became increasingly involved in the world of theatre. As she was devoting herself to her acting lessons, she started to show signs of schizophrenia. Christine committed suicide in East Berlin in
Since Christine’s disappearance, Furuya has never stopped revisiting his archive. This initiative was presented in a series of five books entitled Mémoires, published between and In , Seiichi Furuya sorted all photos taken by Christine with a pocket camera and 35mm camera for the first time in chronological order. When processing this newfound material, he noticed that Christine took a lot of portraits of him, at about the same time that he was photographing her. “It’s Face to Fac
Since the late s the Graz-based Japanese photographer Seiichi Furuya has been pursuing a visual labor of memory under the title Mémoires. In numerous artist’s books and exhibitions Furuya combines portraits of his family with pictures from their travels and places of residence, and these images are presented in ever changing constellations and contexts.
Especially the pictures from East Berlin, where Furuya lived from to , are an exceptional document, featuring a vivid interplay between the private and public, between personal vision and documentary detachment.
In a new digital projection, Furuya shows more than images in a random sequence. 35 years after reunification, Furuya&#;s images appear as casual as they are precise and contemporary.
The exhibition is part of EMOP Berlin
Exhibition text by Kito Nedo (PDF)
Ausstellungstext von Kito Nedo (PDF)
"Memoires " takes the reader through the entire year of , in chronological order, using the photographs of Seiichi Furuya and the corresponding journal entries of his late wife Christiane. The reason for choosing is that it was in this year in which Furuya began to notice the symptoms of Christiane's depression, which would eventually lead to her suicide in Furuya felt that, with some greater distance from these events, it was important to show his photographs and Christiane's words together. Furuya's photographs tend to show his daily life in Austria, focusing on Christiane and their young son. It's now difficult to see them as anything but signals of the cruel fact that the two people were heading on different paths.
Christiane Gossler's diary entries appear in the original German and Japanese.
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