
GOTO AKI『terra | Landscape Topologies』
Book Design:伊野 耕一
Editing:池谷修一
発行:赤々舎
Size:H270mm × W210mm
Page:112 pages
Binding:Softcover, Singer-sewn
Published in March 2026
ISBN:978-4-86541-223-9
¥ 4,500+tax
国内送料無料!
About Book
地球の運動と身体感覚が交差するところに生起する風景
距離や位置関係が変化しても失われない、身体と風景の関係性のありよう
自然風景を「記録」としてではなく、地球の運動が絶えず生成しつづける位相として捉え直してきた写真家 GOTO AKI。前作『terra」から7年。作家は火山地形、海中の山、水中洞窟、湖底に沈む森など、陸上と水中を横断し、撮影領域を拡張しながら撮影を続けてきた。
「風景のトポロジー」とは、距離や形態、位置関係が変化してもなお失われない、身体と風景との関係性のありようを指す。歩き、立ち止まり、潜るという身体的行為を通して風景と関わるなかで、上下や遠近といった空間認識は揺らぎ、意識せずに写していた事象、偶発的に記録された像までもが、世界に開かれた身体を通過した風景の痕跡として立ち現れていった。そうして残った感覚と、自然に内在する「不規則な連続性」との応答に、本書は貫かれている。
イメージが情報として消費される現代において、呼吸するようにしなやかに波打つ造本とともに、『terra | Landscape Topologies 』の風景は、身体を通して触れ続ける、生成と変容の絶えざる過程として、静かに脈動している。
“見ることは、外界を対象化することではなく、身体そのものが世界に触れ、取り込まれながら生成していく過程にほかならない。GOTO AKI の写真が提示するのもまた、そのような〈見ること〉の在り方である。ここに写し出された世界は生物、無生物の境界を超えて等価に存在する。主体としての視線や意味づけを前景化することなく、自然界の生成の現場に身体を介在させることによってはじめて立ち現れる、未だ見ぬ自然の気配に対峙す
る。メルロ=ポンティの言葉になぞらえれば、そのとき写真家は「世界の測定者」であり、その眼差しは自然と同化しながら変容しつづける「絶えざる誕生」である。そして、それを見る私たちの身体もまた、〈見る〉という経験を通してこの世界の一片となりながら新たに生まれつづけているのだ。“
小髙 美穂(キュレーター、写真研究者)
「生成しつづける世界の測定者」より抜粋
“GOTO AKI の写真において執拗に追究されているのは、この地球の原理的な単位である粒とその運動であるように思われる。GOTO の写真は、個別具体的な対象ではなく、雪、水、砂、土といった地球を構成する原理的な物質とその運動への関心を示す。これらの写真が示すように、あらゆる地表の表面が微細な粒子の流動的な運動からなる。またそのことによってその映像は、ポスト・ヒューマンにおける写真とはなにか、という問題を提示するだろう。“
沢山 遼(美術批評家)
「写真、粒子の運動」より抜粋
terra | Landscape Topologies
GOTO AKI
Since last releasing terra in 2019, Goto Aki has updated his work through a series of subsequent exhibitions.Along the way, he gradually expanded his photography domain to the submarine mountains and caves that are geographical features derived from volcanoes, in addition to the forests submerged in lakes.
While sensing the sound of the waves that reach deep into his ears, and moving forward against abrupt winds, he perceived the landscape as if “listening” visually. He was tossed about by strong surging waves in the sea off of Izu Peninsula after a typhoon had passed and clicked the shutter amid a wavering spatial awareness of up and down / near and far that is based on the premise of human perception. Landscapes gradually revert to when they were not yet given words and meaning. Light distorts, spatial contours fade, and water images manifest in unfinished form.
When creating this photobook, Goto Aki randomly positioned prints on a wall and observed the images that can seem to connect, as well as the tension and responses triggered between the images as they spread out on the surface. From there, he arranged an order with implications. Like Hans Hofmann’s “push and pull,” the detected light and color tones created synergy in the screen, bestowing a sense of visual depth. This multi-vision sensation intersected with the spatial sensation felt through his body as he walked through the mountains and dived underwater.[…]
The words “landscape topologies” used in this work refer to the relationship between body and landscapes that stays resilient despite changes in distance, form, and positional relation. The images captured here are not simply landscapes seen by his eyes; rather, they manifest as vestiges of the sensations that passed through his body as he walked, stopped, and dived.
In today’s modern times, images using landscapes as subject matter are instantly consumed as meaning and information in online space, processed as being understood by the brain before being mediated by the body. His wish is to distance himself from this type of involvement with landscapes, to come in contact with light and fluctuations by chance through his body. As these experiences accumulate, his relationship with nature quietly shifts to another phase.
Nature inherently has no name or meaning. Amidst the chain of time since the primitive ages, light creates a line, wind portrays a path, and the earth transforms to a surface to continue expanding. These motions continue today, oblivious to our understanding.
“To see is not to objectify the outside world; rather, it is simply a process for the body itself to come in contact and integrate with the world to generate. With this, GOTO AKI’s photographs also implicate the state of “seeing.” The world he captures exists with equal value, transcending the border between living and non-living. Rather than foregrounding the perspective and meaning as the subject, he uses his body as a medium at the site of natural world generation; this is what enables him to confront the aura of yet-unseen nature that finally manifests. Borrowing from Merleau-Ponty’s words, the photographer then becomes a “measurer of the
world4” and that perspective is of “ceaseless birth5” that perpetually transforms while
assimilating with nature. And as we see them ourselves, our bodies become part of the
world through this experience of seeing to be newly born again and again.“
Miho Odaka (Curator, Photography Researcher)
Excerpts from the text “A ceaselessly generating measurer of the world”
“It seems that GOTO AKI’s photographs diligently pursue those particles that are the fundamental units of this planet and their motions. The subjects of GOTO’s photos are not individual and concrete; rather, they display an interest in fundamental substances such as snow, water, sand, and soil that comprise Earth. As these photos indicate, all earth surfaces are created from the dynamic motion of minute particles.Consequently, those images also likely raise the question of how post-human photo-graphs would be significant. “
Ryo Sawayama(Art Critic)
Excerpts from the text “Photography and the Motion of Particles”
Related Exhibiton
GOTO AKI 写真展「terra | Landscape Topologies」
会期:2026年5月15日(金) 〜6月27日(土)
時間:10:00〜18:00
会場: KOSHA KOSHA AKIHABARA(東京都千代田区東神田3-2-3 写真弘社 5F)
日月休み、入場無料
トークイベント
1)GOTO AKI ✕ 姫野希美(赤々舎 代表)|池谷修一(編集者・司会進行)
2026年5月15日(金) 18:00〜19:30
2)GOTO AKI ✕ 小林のりお(写真家・武蔵野美術大学名誉教授)|池谷修一(編集者・司会進行)
2026年5月30日(土)14:00〜15:30
3)GOTO AKI ✕小高美穂(インディペンデントキュレーター)
2026年6月13日(土)14:00〜15:30
Artist Information
GOTO AKI
1972 年神奈川県川崎市生まれ。上智大学経済学部経営学科在学中、世界一周の旅(1993~94年)を機に写真と出会う。卒業後、丸紅株式会社にて天然ガスのパイプライン輸送業務に従事。退職後、東京綜合写真専門学校写真芸術第二学科に入学し、鈴木清、小林のりおに学ぶ。1999 年より写真家として活動を開始。
写真集に『LAND ESCAPES』(2010 年)、『LAND ESCAPES FACE』(2015年)(ともにtraviaggio publishing)、『terra』(赤々舎・2019 年)がある。
主な個展に「terra」(キヤノンギャラリーS・2019 年)、「event horizon ―事象の地平線―」(ふげん社・2021年)、「TERRA 2024 ―身体と空間―」(キヤノンギャラリー・2024年)、「旅垢離(タビ・ゴリ)―非線形の風景―」(ふげん社・2025 年)など。主なグループ展に「東京好奇心」(Bunkamura ザ・ミュージアム・2020 年)、「写真家はどこから来てどこへ向かうのか ―世界を歩き、地球を変換する写真」(西野壮平との二人展、Gallery Forest・2021 年)などがある。
2020年、日本写真協会賞新人賞受賞。武蔵野美術大学造形構想学部映像学科(2017~25 年)、日本大学芸術学部写真学科(2021~2023 年)にて非常勤講師を務め、2024 年より日本大学芸術学部准教授。
GOTO AKI
Born in Kawasaki City, Japan. While a student in the Department of Management, Faculty of Economics at Sophia University, his journey around the world (1993–94) sparked his interest in photography. After graduating Sophia, he joined Marubeni Corporation and was engaged in natural gas pipeline logistics operations. He later left the company and enrolled in the Photographic Art Secondary Department at Tokyo College of Photography, studying under Kiyoshi Suzuki and Norio Kobayashi. He began working as a photographer in 1999.
Published photobooks: LAND ESCAPES (2010), LAND ESCAPES -FACE- (2015) (both traviaggio publishing); and terra (Akaaka Art Publishing, 2019).
His notable solo exhibitions include: terra (Canon Gallery S; 2019); event horizon (Fugensha, 2021); TERRA 2024 —BODY & SPACE (Canon Gallery, 2024); TABI/GORI—nonlinear
landscape (Fugensha, 2025). Notable group exhibitions: Tokyo Curiosity (Bunkamura the Museum, 2020); Where do photographers come from? Where are they going? —Photos that walk the world and transform the earth— (two-man exhibition with Sohei Nishino, Gallery Forest, 2021); among others.
In 2020, he received the Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer’s Award.
He was part-time instructor at the Imaging Arts and Sciences Department, College of Art and Design, Musashino Art University (2017–25), and the Department of Photography, Nihon University College of Art (2021–23); he is now associate professor at Nihon University
College of Art since 2024.
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