Publisher's Description
We are pleased to announce the launch of Yoshihiko Ueda's 'M. Ganges'. Ueda started
his M series since 2011. Materia is the first one of the series, M. River for the second, M. Sea
for the third, and M. Ganges is the latest work of the series. 'M', the capital of Materia, means
the nature of things. Ueda tries to find it with his skill on photography. For M. Ganges, he
visited Ganges River, India, to see the primitive memory the river has.
'Occasionally I began to sense myself not gazing at somebody in the photo, but seeing
myself in the photo I'd taken. In my line of sight: my memories, or rather, in fact, memories
from a distant past that for some reason did not seem to be my own. Spying an old dog I
discern the sorrowful scent of death, and at the same time, that dog could almost be me;
sometimes it feels like the landscape that looks dim and hazy as she totters along is no longer
hers, that she may be seeing far distant memories. Perhaps one can see distant memories by
sniffing the stench of death; the hazy light and shadow, color and form being all that remain,
an unfathomable feeling of nostalgia suffuses my heart with stunning intensity, a sudden fit of
weeping assailing me. Lamentation and delight and uncertain memories become light and
color without contour, embracing me. The memories of dogs, of birds, of trees, of rivers, of
mountains: my chest tightens with a wistful pang at the memories of each and every thing in
this world. Photographs are memories of gazes, of faraway places, of people and times that
have passed.' --Yoshihiko Ueda
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