Japan
Where Shadows Keep Time
Kyoto, Japan · 2016 · Night photograph · One-hour exposure
About the work
The red gateposts form a densely layered corridor. Their vertical rhythm is crossed by oblique shadows on the ground: dark bands run across the pale path, overlap and guide the eye into depth. The photograph draws its tension from the meeting of two orders—the repetition of the architecture and the changing pattern of light.
André Wagner photographed the scene at night in Kyoto in 2016, using a one-hour exposure. The photograph thus condenses an extended period into a single view. Intense vermilion, dark column bases and the granular surface of the path emerge as distinct material zones. A dark opening remains at the end of the passage, receiving the image’s perspectival movement without bringing it to a complete resolution.
From an art-historical perspective, the work can be situated between perspectival space and a serial, almost abstract composition. The gates articulate depth, while the shadows draw a second structure across the ground. The title Where Shadows Keep Time reads these repetitions as a visual measure of duration. It does not claim a measurable movement of the shadows, but addresses the tension between the length of the exposure and the still appearance of the space.
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| 84 × 63 cm | Edition 7 + 2 AP |
| 108 × 81 cm | Edition 5 + 2 AP |
| 145 × 108,8 cm | Edition 5 + 2 AP |
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