Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film is pleased to present Toshiya Murakoshi’s solo exhibition “turn back the hands of time.” The current exhibition is comprised of 15 works that Murakoshi shot in his hometown, Sukagawa city in Fukushima prefecture between spring and early summer 2009.

In January 2009, My grandmother was admitted to the hospital.
The doctor told us she had three months to live.
I went back to my parents' house as many times as I could,
thinking about capturing her image as frequently as I could.
But I could hardly do this because she was more emaciated each time I saw her.
I walked around my house and took photographs of it
as if I sought for the shadow of my grandmother.
She passed away in April as the doctor had predicted .
The funeral, the 49th day after death, the Bon Festival, all has passed so quickly.
I continued to go back to my parents' house to take photographs afterwards.
The year 2009 came to an end in that way.
I noticed that I could feel her presence more strongly from the photographs
taken around my house than those taken of her, herself and of which I had only a few shots.
Memories will fade out little by little from one’s mind, but I realized that
the fragments of memory that were etched into a little landscape
where I spent with her will remain from now on.
The landscape which seemed nothing much to me before, has become a beautiful memory now.
- Toshiya Murakoshi

Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery