Saturday, February 14, 2009

From 14th February until 31st. March. Exhibition: Pasajero.


WHAT IS PASAJERO?

It is the Spanish word for passenger, but it also means fleeting or ephemeral. This double sense is embodied in the journey through the Tokyo subway by a Spanish traveller, pasajero, riding trains, who is the beholder of transient daily life inspired by chance encounters.

Tokyo has the world’s largest rail system, 2,300 km of railway, 136 lines and more than 1,000 stations, flooded daily with a huge stream of 20 million passengers. The Spanish photographer Xavier Comas spent weeks roaming this amazing underlying reality, moving randomly between lines and trains, armed with his camera.

Pasajero emphasizes awareness of blank spaces, the ephemeral experience of life and its melancholic sense of beauty.

No comments: