hideonakane / Works

I first visited ‘Hama-dori’ in Fukushima Prefecture in September 2013. I was fascinated by the ‘landscape’ that unfolded before me at the edge of the land. It was a place of unusual tranquility. I later learnt that the seaside village was in the Maehara, Yamada-Hama area of Naraha-machi, Futaba-gun, Fukushima Prefecture, and that the small station on the Joban Line at the village's entrance is called Kido Station.
The scenery I encountered was unforgettable, prompting a return visit in 2015 when the Joban Line was partially restored. In 2020, I compiled a series of photographs capturing the memories of the land surrounding Kido Station, although I initially had no intention of presenting them. These photographs were later exhibited at two galleries in Tokyo under the theme of FUKUSHIMA.
I, who have no connection to Fukushima, noticed a historical ‘asymmetry’ between Tokyo and FUKUSHIMA after my recent solo exhibition: the Tokyo Olympics were held under the banner of ‘reconstruction’ for Fukushima. Driven by this idea, the entire Joban Line reopened to traffic, and the area was officially designated as FUKUSHIMA. Regions around Yonomori Station (Tomioka-machi), Ono Station (Okuma-machi), and Futaba Station (Futaba-machi) were established as ‘Specific Reconstruction and Revitalisation Zones’. This initiative allows for residents to return to the previously ‘difficult-to-access areas’, where future residency had been restricted. The following spring, part of my exhibition traveled to Tokyo.

left: 2021-0219 16:13 / Naraha-Machi, Yamada-Hama
right: 2024-0629 18:45 / Tomioka-Machi, from Kdegaya
Photogragh @Gallery Nayuta　

left: 2024-0407 08:47／Naraha-Machi, Yamada River estuary
right: 2024-0628 13:53 / Futaba-Machi
Photogragh @Gallery Nayuta　

left: forget-me-not /2024-0323 13:13
right: forget-me-not / 2024-0411 06:49
Photogragh @Gallery Nayuta

left: a tale of a beautiful country / Naraha-Machi, Yamada-Hama
centre: 2015-06-28 11:42／Naraha-Machi, Yamada-Hama
right: 2021-0219 16:53／Naraha-Machi, Yamada-Hama
Photogragh @atelier arbor inversa

left: forget-me-not
right: Fridays 2012-2013 / National Diet Building
Photogragh @atelier arbor inversa

Photo Book：in ten years ―a tale of a beautiful country / utopia

in ten years ―a tale of a beautiful countory/utopia

The new photo book features 170 photographs taken from 2021 to the summer of 2024. While exploring the Kido Station area, having been ‘reconstructed’ in the past decade, along with other regions of Fukushima that still face an uncertain future, I show the ‘current reality’ of the ‘Hama-Dori’ area, which cannot simply be summarized as ‘ten years after the disaster’. Not as a party involved in the disaster but as one who unknowingly had been consuming electricity from Fukushima, I as an artist, must stay conscious of the fact, to question their ‘wounds’ and ‘pains’ repeatedly, to think about the ‘impossibility’ of being close to the grief of others; those would reflect our new ‘theory of landscape’.

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