CUPBOARD MEMORIES, Boqian Xia
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Cupboard Memories by the Chinese photographer Xia Boqian.
Forewords by the Japanese photographer Keiko Nomura, translations in Japanese, Chinese, English.
In Cupboard Memories the Chinese artist Xia Boqian merge together two projects; Out of the closet, where she have covered for a long time people with depression, mental issues due to events and way of life they didn't wanted to share publicly. This project "out of the closet" also covered people suffering of what they are but can't change; lesbians/gays, fat, suicidal, harassed, bullied, etc... For the edit of the book this project has been mixed with other "lighter" secrets; hidden feelings, sentimental affairs, secret love... to make a compilation of private moments with quite improvised stages. What was important during the shooting was to let go and she captured only few pictures of these moments, instantly, without taking care of "professional standard" (lighting, framing,...) She captured the moments.
The emotions frozen in time are much more valuables as during the preparation of the book, a lot of the archives where irremediably lost, leaving us in doubt about using old scans or previous internet sharing. But it was the story of the book itself: a compilation of imperfect things and moments, that cannot be repeated, so we kept going forward.
The sequencing was made using the idea of mutual needs: flowers, waters & human connections responding to each others.
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Book information :
Title : Cupboard memories
Photographs : Xia Boqian
Forewords : Keiko Nomura
Translation : Yuka Katagiri
Edited by 13BD05726 & Xia Boqian
Design : 13BD05726
Hard cover, 112 pages
Paper : Yingan - Mibai (white rice) 140g
Print : Full offset, 86 plates quadri
Silver hotfoil print on cotton cloth cover
Size (in mm) : 190 Width x 270 High
Limited edition of 500, numbered.
ISBN : 978-988-77600-4-7
More about the artist : https://bromidebooks.com/authors/xia-boqian/