Potsdam 6 Oct. - East Berlin 7 Oct.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Potsdam 6 Oct. - East Berlin 7 Oct.
- Artist: Seiichi Furuya (Japanese, born 1950)
- Date: 1985
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: 91.4 x 61 cm (36 x 24 in. )
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift, 1999
- Object Number: 1999.321a
- Rights and Reproduction: © Seiichi Furuya
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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