Osamu Kanemura presents a manifestation of his photographic practice with his publication "Gate Hack Eden," which is being published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at Cave-Ayumi Gallery in Tokyo in September 2024.

"Gate Hack Eden" takes the form of a "landscape of towering ruins, marked by the traces of what once was, revealing the essence of what still is and what always will be.” In fragments of photographs, drawings, film stills, and collages, Kanemura explores the city as both place and concept, exploring the nature of materiality and its relationship to photography.
Like an edifice rising out of a newly formed distance, images now severed and removed from original intention run in parallel with Kanemura’s own edifice of thought in describing the mediums used as being formed by an accumulation of traces and fragments, their essence becoming clear once they have become free from the utility of reproducing the subject.

Totaling 1,648 pages, divided into 5 “modules” which stack and interlock forming a structure which can both be itself fragmented or continuous, the hundreds of splintered images interwoven together, their remnants layered in a shifting order, consolidating to form a ruin object with a seemingly infinite number of unique instances, the now cracked surfaces existent but scattered like ghostly rubble over a vast plain.

Each copy has been hand sorted and is original, marked with the unique number relating to the image appearing on its top surface. Each of the 4 modules of 400 pages is bound between two pieces of clear acrylic using a series of alternating plastic rivets.

The 5. module incorporates two essays, one written by curator Pauline Vermare, providing a comprehensive introduction to Kanemura’s practice from the beginnings until the present day, and one written by Kanemura himself, making tangible through words the depths of thought behind his work and by extension this book.