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Seiichi Furuya

1978 · Chromogenic print · Photographs

Furuya obsessively documented myriad aspects of his life with Christine Gössler, from their meeting in 1978 to her suicide in 1985. Since then, the artist has embarked on a quixotic, seemingly infinite reconfiguration of the sea of images that survive his subject. Like a writer mulling over his material, Furuya coaxes clues out of the unanswerable questions of human suffering and experience. In this pairing the end of a story (on the contact sheet) is written into its opening lines, prefigured in the scars that haunt the flush of first love.

Artist

Seiichi Furuya

Date

1978

Medium

Chromogenic print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift, 1999