A 'Foreigner'　是「外人」

Intimate connections are complications created through the interaction of objects and other objects or people, and the viewer themselves. Whether it is a frail tree in its loneliest moment, the inconspicuous view of hands, or a recognisable landmark familiar from pop culture, these scenes come together to form an anecdote of a life in disarray. The same symbols that one has lengthy relationships with, at the same time can be coupled with the difficulty in attaching to a place or time. It severs a fundamental ability to communicate and seize the intimacy that one yearns for, all the while its readily available for them.

Showing various settings from Hong Kong and Japan, “A ‘Foreigner’” presents the latest continuation of a journey Masahiro Nakamura has taken to resolve an identity. The photos take on an external discovery, rather than attempting at describing an ultimately nonsensical identity confusion from within. It is framed to leave one pondering about the absent. Along with the visible, they are difficult to recover, and reflects Nakamura’s memory and emotions of a character difficult to convey. The local is the foreign, and  the insider is the outsider.