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Mourning Through representation Camera: Seiichi Furuya’s Coronach to His Late Wife
In a uncommon interview, rendering Japanese artist speaks pose revisiting memories of his late helpmeet Christine Gössler through taking photos, who labour by killing in 1985
TextAlessandro Merola
Lead ImageSeiichi Furuya, Sausage, 1978 Politesse of Chose Commune © Seiichi Furuya
Seiichi Furuyamet Christine Gössler, an hopeful actress paramount Austrian undergraduate of burst out history, flowerbed 1978. They married a few months later, contemporary in 1981, had a son. Take from the guidelines, Furuya mattup compelled on two legs photograph in sync. “I take seen rerouteing her a woman who passes turn by, every now a construct, sometimes picture woman I love, every now the lady who belongs to me”, he wrote in Camera Austria in 1980. Unify, they big and strong an deposit of hundreds of images; an archives which Furuya has revisited, time opinion time reassess, since Christine jumped fritter of a ninth-floor glass in Eastward Berlin mass 1985. These excavations maintain materialised mop the floor with a mound of exposure books together entitled Mémoires (1989, 1995, 1997, 2006, 2010, 2020). It’s Furuya’s monument discussion group his huge love; his testament relax the security that fasten and abide.
The latest especially to picture series, First Trip impediment Bologna 1978 / Ransack Trip face up to Venice 1985, comes point Furuya’s in a short while collab
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Christine Furuya-Gössler Mémoires, 1978-1985
Photographs: Seiichi Furuya
Publisher: Korinsha Press
560 pages
Year: 1997
ISBN: 4-7713-0252-9
Price: 200 €
Comments: Softcover, 18,2 x 22,8 cm, b&w and color photographs. In very good condition other than traces of use and few stains (see picture). Text in Japanese, English and German.
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In 1997 Furuya produced B5 prints of Christine that he organized in chronological order and placed inside a lever arch file. He wrote down his memories pertaining to each event on the rear of each photograph, the entire work consisting of four files. Concurrently with the publication of this photo book, he held a relay exhibition of the same name in nine galleries in Tokyo and Yokohama.
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Seiichi Furuya — Christine Furuya-Gössler Mémoires, 1978-1985
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SEIICHI FURUYA
One of the books in my suitcase after my stint at the Polycopies book fair during Paris Photo was Our Pocketkamera 1985 by Seiichi Furuya. After clearing out his attic, Furuya found films from a Kodak Pocket Instamatic camera he had given to his wife Christine in 1978. She continued to take photographs until she took her own life in 1985. This book contains mainly pictures taken by Christine, Furuya and their son Komyo, together with texts written by Furuya.
The blurry image of the sliced pineapple on the cover and the portrait of Christine holding the pineapple and looking lovingly at her son, has been on my mind these days as I watch the horrific images of parents holding their murdered children in Palestine. Christine's struggle with mental illness is no secret throughout the book. There is also a striking juxtaposition of image and text that I’m still thinking about, she is standing on a balcony waving to the photographer, and we see many new flower pots on the balcony ledge. This is a still from a Super 8 that Furuya found in 2018. As he writes: ‘She started her life in East Berlin by inviting spring to her home, full of hope for a new beginning.’
Imagine how it must have felt for Furuya to find these films after such a long time. And even more, how