Enokura Koji
P.W. No. 50, Symptom - Floor, Water

P.W. No. 50, Symptom - Floor, Water

© Michiyo Enokura

P.W. No. 50, Symptom - Floor, Water
P.W. No. 50, Symptom - Floor, Water
ArtistJapanese, 1942–1995
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • P.W. No. 50, Symptom - Floor, Water
Date1974
Place depictedParis, France
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 7/8 × 9 3/4 in. (20 × 24.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Frame (outer) (ANW EXHIBITION FRAME): 20 5/8 × 16 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (52.4 × 42.2 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2014.684
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionFrequently associated with the Mono-ha (School of Things) movement, Kōji Enokura exposed the raw materiality of cloth, concrete, paper, and other materials, often in relationship to the artist’s body and to specific spaces. As an extension of his sculptural investigations of spatial relationships, he began using photography in 1972 to convey materiality in the series P.W., an abbreviation of “Photographic Work.” Enokura’s sharp photographs of everyday scenes vividly evoke a sense of the tactile, particularly in his frequent depictions of wet surfaces such as floors and tabletops. He felt that photography revealed his approach to facing things directly, transcending everyday vision, and responding with a corporeal sensitivity. Interested in what he called a “frightening unease” between a body and the space around it, Enokura considered the camera an optical instrument that could intervene between an object and himself.
Provenance[Tokyo Publishing House, Tokyo]; purchased by MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition History“For A New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979 Japan,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 8–July 12, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed on sheet verso in pen: 1974, [in Japanese] [Untitled, water]

Inscribed in pencil inside estate stamp on sheet verso: 011-001-108
Unsigned
Stamped with estate stamp on sheet verso: SPACE 23°C / Enokura / 2012

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