
I have received these images as Season’s Greeting, Courtesy of Mark Pearson, owner of Zen Foto Gallery, who organized my duo exhibition with Araki-san last year. I’m glad that Araki-san had understood the series perfectly. Artforum writer Julia Friedman reviewed the show as such, that “Wu’s photographs were almost ‘chaste’ next to Araki’s.” I personally think that besides the obvious wetness that suggests the proximity to sexual act itself, each photograph of his felt like a large vaginal vortex, sucking the viewer into a terrifying abyss. Such is the irresistible power of an Araki image. Below are some photographs of the show that I attended at Taka Ishii Gallery in 2010, in respect to the great master:


Currently listening :

