Riku Yamakawa | Feng Chi - Photography Direction "Outside In Between" (Part 1)
Riku Yamakawa reviews the first part of Feng Chi's photography exhibition, "Outside In Between," held at Gallery MAZEKOZE in Nagano.Summary
This article is the first part of Riku Yamakawa's critique of Feng Chi's photography direction exhibition, "Outside In Between," held at Gallery MAZEKOZE in Nagano Prefecture (November 4–29, 2025). Feng Chi, an artist originally from Nantong, China, currently works at a welfare facility in Ueda, Nagano. The exhibition primarily consists of four parts: "Output from Photographic Act II: Gestures in a Foreign Land" (2016, Japanese Archipelago), "Reproduction of Output from Record 0: Viewing My Hometown from the Embankment" (2011, Nantong, China), "Video Record of Output from Photographic Act IV: My Wife's Hometown, My Daughter's Hometown" (2023-, Kanagawa/Nagano), and "The Recalling Room" (2025). Yamakawa focuses on "Gestures in a Foreign Land," where photographs taken simultaneously by two cameras at slightly different heights are presented in upper and lower tiers. The critique explores how these paired images reveal the physical 'gestures' of the photographer—the slight lag or effort involved in operating heavy film cameras—and how the work addresses themes of movement, whether by the photographer or the passing of the camera between hands. The article suggests the work invites contemplation on the body and the space/time traversed, concluding before moving to the second part.
(Source：artscape)