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Nozomi Suzuki

Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1983, Nozomi Suzuki graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Zokei, Tokyo Zokei University, with a major in painting in 2007. She completed the research-based doctoral program at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts Department of Intermedia Art in 2022. Her major exhibitions include The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope (Pola Museum of Art Atrium Gallery, 2024), Words of Light (Dai-ichi Life Gallery, Tokyo, 2024), Latent Scenery (Arts Maebashi, 2022), Medium and Dimension: Liminal (Kakinokisou, Tokyo, 2022), MOT Satellite 2018 Autumn: To become a narrative (Shirakawa 2-chome Community Hall and Oshima Warehouse, Tokyo, 2018), Photographs of Innocence and of Experience: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 14 (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2017), and New Vision Saitama 5: The Emerging Body (The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 2016). In 2018, Suzuki trained in the UK on a Pola Art Foundation grant. Her major awards include the New Photographer Award at the 41st Higashikawa Awards (2025) and the VOCA Encouragement Award at VOCA 2016 – The Vision of Contemporary Art. Suzuki’s main publications include LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS (rin art association, 2022). Her works are held in such collections as the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and Arts Maebashi.

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Words of Light

Ichibacho/Inohana area
I consider the latent images we can find in objects through the various optical phenomena to be “memories” of objects, and I try to make these visible through the principles of photography. “Words of light” is a term that William Henry Fox Talbot used to express the relationship between photography and the nature from which photography originates, before spontaneous images captured by light came to be called photographs. In our daily lives, there are objects that have holes in them due to the various ways we use them, their design, the activities of living creatures, or simply defects. Though ordinarily masked by other light, the images of light that are joined by the pinhole projection phenomenon (the principle of the pinhole camera) that occurs in these holes certainly exist in the here and now. It is as if the light is whispering a soliloquy without anyone noticing. In this project, I will hunt for holes in Chiba City where the pinhole projection phenomenon occurs in cooperation with local residents. By fixing the light images projected by these holes (which are just a little too large to be called pinholes) onto photosensitive materials like film or photographic paper, I make visible the “words ​​of light” that are all around us. Perhaps we can regard the act of capturing the light images produced by the pinhole projection phenomenon on various photosensitive materials as an act of translating the “words ​​of light” through different photographic languages. Rather than the creator of the images presented here, I would like to be a mediator or translator of the “words ​​of light.” [Types of citizen involvement] Workshop Participation, Exhibition viewing
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