Transcreation : installation view(Tokyo)
Transcreation : installation view(Tokyo)
Transcreation : installation view(Kyoto)
Transcreation : installation view(Kyoto)
Transcreation「Yeddo」
Transcreation「Yeddo」
Transcrestion「Yeddo」
Transcrestion「Yeddo」
Transcreation「Yeddo」
Transcreation「Yeddo」
Transcreation「Le sainte montagne de Nikko」
Transcreation「Le sainte montagne de Nikko」
Transcreation「Le sainte montagne de Nikko」
Transcreation「Le sainte montagne de Nikko」
Transcreation「Le sainte montagne de Nikko」
Transcreation「Le sainte montagne de Nikko」
Transcreation「Kioto, la ville sainte」
Transcreation「Kioto, la ville sainte」
Transcreation「Kioto, la ville sainte」
Transcreation「Kioto, la ville sainte」
Transcreation「Kioto, la ville sainte」
Transcreation「Kioto, la ville sainte」
Transcreation (2019)
Video
Kioto, la ville sainte 05' 12"　Le sainte montagne de Nikko 18'10"　Yeddo 18'37"

In Transcreation, Araki attempts to retrace French writer Pierre Loti’s (1850 - 1923) footsteps by revisiting the same location where Loti mentions in his travelogue "Japoneries d’automne" (1889). For this particular video series, Araki cites 1953 version of the Japanese book (translated by Kikuichiro Murakami and Kiyoshi Yoshihi; Kadokawa Shoten), and the unmodified extracts employed as subtitles. Through the playful juxtaposition of contemporary Japanese imagery with a 130-year-old text about Tokyo via Western gaze, Araki exposes sceneries that are neither from the past nor present.