Mémoires 1983 Christiane Furuya-Gossler 1983 / Seiichi Furuya 2006 by Seiichi Furuya

In this fourth book, Mémoires, Furuya reflects Christine's voice directly in her work for the first time.

At the end of 2005, Furuya decided to read Christine's memoir, but because it was handwritten in German, he was unable to decipher it. could read. For two months from January 2006, Furuya completed his Japanese role in an atelier in Paris. By combining these notes with the photographs he has taken in chronological order, Furuya recalls the year 1983, which he always reaches at the end of his recollections.

I read her memoirs for the first time in Paris. One afternoon near the end of the year, I handed three notebooks to a female student I had just met.Since 1989, I have edited six photobooks, all of which were published in October 1985. It was made while thinking of Christine, his wife who passed away in East Berlin on May 11. It has always haunted me with "something" that cannot be forgiven by the plain interpretation that she suffered a mental disorder and eventually committed suicide. This photo book gave birth to a sad protagonist, and pointed out my incompetence and my voyeuristic pleasures.

I found out about the existence of the memoir after her death, but I never read it.I always end up in 1983 on my journey of reminiscence. 2012, this year has been confusing inside me.It was in the spring of this year that her "abnormal" behavior began to stand out and led to her being hospitalized.Now she has written 25 notes over the course of a year. I found out that I left it, but there is no record in July, August, November and December.There is a high possibility that I could not find it.I also shot about 150 rolls of 35mm film in that year. Almost two months had passed since I left Graz to escape the reverberations of the "incident."I spent my days going back and forth between contact prints lined up all over the floor.A red dotted line and a question mark on a typewritten copy. I continued reading, slowly, word by word, translating it into Japanese.When I left Paris at the end of March, I wrote her poem in 1983. I decided to make a book out of my notes and my photographs." - Seiichi Furuya (Graz, June 2006)

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Title: Mémoires 1983 Christiane Furuya-Gossler 1983 / Seiichi Furuya 2006
Artist: Seiichi Furuya
AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2006
Softcover with flaps, obi-band and booklet insert, perfect binding
193 x 231 x 23 mm
311 pages
Text in Japanese, German and English
ISBN: 978-4-903545-03-5