Burn - Overflow | Takuma Nakahira | Live Art Books 2024

This catalog accompanied the exhibition of the same title held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, from February 6 to April 7, 2024. The exhibition offered a comprehensive retrospective of Takuma Nakahira's career and works. The volume is divided into five sections with numerous texts in both Japanese and English, including many previously unpublished photographs and focusing in particular on his numerous collaborations with magazines. 

"“What Nakahira sought through these works and writings was resistance to systems pervasively embedded in contemporary society. These systems enforce norms and order and are often subconsciously internalized, leading to a kind of voluntary submission. He sought resistance to the ubiquitous influence of power and capital, which permeates everyday life and alienates the individual. Provoke was initiated in order to foster thought, and develop a fundamental language, capable of countering these forces. Nakahira’s spearheading of ‘landscape theory’ stemmed from recognizing these systems as manifested in the landscape that surrounds us.” - From Rei Masuda’s introduction