Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Schaefer International Gallery One Cameron Way, Kahului, Hawai‘i 96732, USA
This group exhibition will take place at Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Schaefer International Gallery in summer 2024 and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Art Gallery in winter 2025. The exhibition features seven contemporary photographers from Japan who go by the collective name of “photography?end?”, consisting of Yuji Hamada, Ken Kitano, Miki Nitadori, Yuki Onodera, Naruki Oshima, Risaku Suzuki, and Kazuyoshi Usui. Their respective avenues of work look at the potentiality of photography in a rapidly evolving digital age. While the production of images has become largely dematerialized in our current moment, the artists consider the materiality of photography and explore the relationship between conception, theme, and exhibition of work.
Curated by Schaefer International Gallery Director Jonathan Yukio Clark, the exhibition will present a body of work from each artist, with several artists opting to integrate site-specific works developed in Hawai‘i with their longer ongoing series. Their approaches push the boundaries of photography through a range of presentations that include prints of varied scale, cyanotypes on alternate materials, documentation of constructed environments, and installation-based projects. The exhibit will also include several concurrent public programs, such as presentations and workshop formats that seek to foster relationships between this international collective of photographers and Maui’s unique artist community.