Velvet Rooms
Sakiko Nomura’s book “ROOM 416” explores dim-lit rooms and unmade beds, playing with the language of Polaroid.
Polaroid is often used to photograph intimacy, but in Sakiko Nomura’s work, the expectation of direct flash and moments of familiarity is defied by mysterious scenes cast in shade. Models’ faces, flowers and nude bodies emerge from the velvet corners of hotel rooms.
The bustling rhythm of the city flows just outside of the windows, its noise muffled by a glass that seems to separate two parallel worlds. Indoors and outdoors, the space of the photograph and the space of the person who looks at it. The viewer also shapes the narrative while experiencing the book, whose design allows to either keep the initial sequence or compose new triptychs, imagining a set of different, cryptic, storylines.
The book “ROOM 416” is published by Galerie Écho and available at the price of €46.
