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Mémoires 1983 Christiane Furuya-Gossler 1983 / Seiichi Furuya 2006 by Seiichi Furuya
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Mémoires 1983 Christiane Furuya-Gossler 1983 / Seiichi Furuya 2006 by Seiichi Furuya

AKAAKA Art Publishing

In this, his fourth book, Mémoires, Furuya has for the first time directly incorporated Christine's voice into his work.

At the end of 2005, Furuya decided to read the notes Christine had left behind, but was unable to decipher them as they were handwritten in German, and only managed to do so by having a student transcribe them. From January 2006, Furuya holed himself up in his Paris studio for two months, completing the Japanese role. By combining these notes with photographs he had taken himself in chronological order, Furuya recalls the year "1983," the year he always ends up at in his memories.

"I read her notes for the first time in Paris. After some hesitation, I decided to make a clean copy of the notes, handwritten in German that I "couldn't read." One afternoon, as the end of the year drew near and the streets of Graz were soon to disappear into the darkness, I handed the three notebooks to a female student I had just met. Since 1989, I have compiled six photo books. All of them were created with my wife, Christine, who died in East Berlin in October 1985, in mind. There has always been something about her that cannot be excused by the simple explanation that she suffered a mental breakdown and eventually committed suicide. The photo books that were released to the public created a tragic protagonist and pointed out my own incompetence and even my voyeuristic pleasures. I was beginning to feel the limitations of being one of the parties involved in the "incident" and of having to also be the one to compile it.

I found out about the existence of her diary after she passed away, but I never read it. 1983, which is always the year I end up on a trip back in time, has been a confusing time for me. It was in the spring of that year that her "abnormal" behavior began to become noticeable, which led to her hospitalization. I now know that she left 25 diary entries over the course of a year, but there are no records for July, August, November, and December. It is highly likely that they were never found. I was also able to confirm that I shot over 150 rolls of 35mm film that year. Two months had passed since I left Graz, as if to escape the echoes of the "incident." I spent my days going back and forth between the contact prints lined up all over the floor. The typed clean copy had red dotted lines and question marks, the parts that even the female student couldn't decipher. I continued reading. Slowly, word by word, I translated it into Japanese. When I was leaving Paris at the end of March, I decided to compile a book with her diary written in 1983 and my photographs. - Seiichi Furuya (Graz, June 2006)

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Title: Mémoires 1983 Christiane Furuya-Gossler 1983 / Seiichi Furuya 2006
Artist: Seiichi Furuya
AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2006
Softcover with flaps, obi-band and booklet insert, perfect binding
193 x 231 x 23 mm
311 pages
Text in Japanese, German and English
ISBN: 978-4-903545-03-5

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