Koyama Taisuke

PHASE TRANS

“PHASE TRANS” is Taisuke Koyama’s first photo book in six years since “VESSEL – XYZXY” (Collaboration with Kohei Nawa | Damien Jalet) published in 2017 (Rrose Editions + taisuke koyama projects.) Based on his solo exhibition “PHASE TRANS” (G/P gallery) held in 2018 with the concept of “phase transition of images” in the city, the book contains a collection of 102 works including the “REVIVE” series and the “INTERFACE” series that he has continuously produced and presented. These works are composed based on a sequence generated by the random arrangement of the photo slideshow.

The main focus of this book is the “REVIVE” series, which automatically synthesized by errors occurring during the intentional deletion and subsequent recovery, using data recovery software, of tens of thousands of photographs taken in Tokyo’s redevelopment areas triggered by the Olympics. The composition of the images, including noise and discoloration, is not intentional but rather incidental occurrences during the data recovery process. These images born from the process of data disappearance and regeneration depict the fluidity of a city undergoing repeated cycles of destruction and reconstruction.

On the other hand, the “INTERFACE” series focuses on the surfaces of the city as points of contact where people visually and physically encounter the urban environment. It captures the “boundaries” that unconsciously regulate our behavior in urban spaces, such as construction site fences, temporary walls, triangular cones, and braille block, using scanning technology from LiDAR sensors embedded in iPhones. By projecting the 3D image texture map of the recorded boundaries onto concrete blocks and re-photographing, the surface undergoes a transformation into an accumulation of highly fragmented textures. These works were created to be installed in the urban space, and “INTERFACE_GINZA” exhibited on 24 glass windows facing Ginza Chuo-dori in GINZA SIX GARDEN in 2020, and “INTERFACE_YURAKUCHO” on the glass facades of six buildings in Yurakucho in 2021, both planned by TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH.