The Season Ahead — その先の季節‍

landscape
Written By Giovanni Piliarvu

Some exhibitions begin with a subject. Others begin with a feeling already present in the air.

The Season Ahead — その先の季節‍ ‍belongs to the second kind.

Seasons never arrive everywhere at once. They move through distance, temperature, light, and wind. In one place, the air has already become colder; somewhere else, the landscape is still holding on to what came before. What interests me is that interval—the moment when change can be felt before it can be clearly named.

From October 6 to 11, I will be taking part in this Island Gallery group exhibition at Kujaku Gallery in Kyobashi, Tokyo, together with Sho Shibata and Hiroshi Tanita.

Each of us approaches landscape through a different sense of time and distance. The photographs do not describe a single season. Instead, they look toward what is coming: lower light, colder air, longer shadows, and the quiet transformation of the places in front of us.

[Image 2 — Giovanni’s main photograph]

For my part of the exhibition, I have been thinking about time, wind, presence, and passage. I am less interested in showing the season as spectacle than in recognizing its traces—the small signs that something is already moving beyond the visible landscape.

A photograph can hold what is in front of us, but it can also point toward what has just disappeared or what has not yet arrived. That tension is at the center of the work I selected for this exhibition.

I hope you can visit the gallery and spend some time with the prints in person.

Island Gallery企画展 / The Season Ahead — その先の季節

Giovanni Piliarvu https://www.giovannipiliarvu.com
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