AKIRA GOMI “YELLOWS CONTEMPORARY GIRLS PSYCHO SEXUAL”

HAPPENINGText: Atsuko Kobayashi

A new version from the series of CD-ROM “YELLOWS” by Akira Gomi is on sale now. From 8th to 31st August, 1997, YELLOWS Contemporary Girls Psycho Sexual exhibition was held at DIGITALOGUE Gallery in Harajuku, Tokyo.

The CD-ROM work consists of his photos of sixteen couples of women who enjoy abnormal sexual tastes such as SM, lesbians with tattos, body pierces etc..also their interviews in Quick Time along with a psychiatrist’s analysis.

By photographing the women’s various lifestyles, it describes part of the current Japanese zeitgaist, “mental memory” as well as “physical forms”. “You could say that the more you have chioces, the more you get sophisticated”, says the psychiatrist, which make me feel touched somehow.

Akira Gomi “YELLOWS Contemporary Girls Psycho Sexual”
Date: August 8th -31st, 1997
Place: DIGITALOGUE Gallery
Address: 3-27-7 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Tel: +81 (0)3 3408 2494
http://www.digitalogue.co.jp

Text: Atsuko Kobayashi
Translation: Satoru Tanno

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