"Super TakumarAsahi" (超级拓真旭)
// BLURB //
Looking through a Super Takumar lens is like borrowing someone else’s memory, someone a little wiser, a little softer, and a little more in love with the world. The glass doesn’t just capture light; it hums with it. Edges blur the way a thought does right before you fall asleep, colors warm like afternoon tea left on the table a little too long. Life becomes less sharp and more felt. It’s funny, everyone rushes to make things crisp, perfect, clinically clean. But the Takumar whispers, ‘what if the beauty is in the glow?’ In the little haloes around streetlights, the soft bloom across someone’s smile, the slight haze that makes ordinary moments look like they were meant to be remembered. And yes, sometimes the lens yellows with time. Thorium or simply age, who knows; history leaves fingerprints. But there’s a ritual in wiping the glass gently, lifting smudges with slow circles. Wipe left, then right. Like tending to your own perspective. Like reminding yourself that clarity and tenderness are not opposites.
Looking through a Super Takumar lens is like borrowing someone else’s memory, someone a little wiser, a little softer, and a little more in love with the world. The glass doesn’t just capture light; it hums with it. Edges blur the way a thought does right before you fall asleep, colors warm like afternoon tea left on the table a little too long. Life becomes less sharp and more felt. It’s funny, everyone rushes to make things crisp, perfect, clinically clean. But the Takumar whispers, ‘what if the beauty is in the glow?’ In the little haloes around streetlights, the soft bloom across someone’s smile, the slight haze that makes ordinary moments look like they were meant to be remembered. And yes, sometimes the lens yellows with time. Thorium or simply age, who knows; history leaves fingerprints. But there’s a ritual in wiping the glass gently, lifting smudges with slow circles. Wipe left, then right. Like tending to your own perspective. Like reminding yourself that clarity and tenderness are not opposites.
EDITION, MEDIA, SIZE & WEIGHT
One-of-a-kind work, issued as a unique edition. A preliminary prototype may exist within the collective’s archive and may serve as a museum proof for future exhibition or provenance traceability.,
Shanghai 2025
TFT display, media player, Staedtler black pigment ink, acrylic & oil paint on Vietnamese linen embedded in hand cast resin, teakwood frame
84.1(W)×114.8(H)×5.1(D) cm // 31 kg
CRATE SIZE & WEIGHT
100(W)×130(H)×21(D) cm // 61 kg
EXPOSURE
“The Fourth Wall” at island6 Shanghai
CREDITS
Shengqiu Li 李生秋 (painting) • Yang Suer 杨素儿 (performance) • Helen Chen 陈韵涵 (director of photography) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction) • Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (production supervisor) • Tiara Alvarado-Leon (blurb)
One-of-a-kind work, issued as a unique edition. A preliminary prototype may exist within the collective’s archive and may serve as a museum proof for future exhibition or provenance traceability.,
Shanghai 2025
TFT display, media player, Staedtler black pigment ink, acrylic & oil paint on Vietnamese linen embedded in hand cast resin, teakwood frame
84.1(W)×114.8(H)×5.1(D) cm // 31 kg
CRATE SIZE & WEIGHT
100(W)×130(H)×21(D) cm // 61 kg
EXPOSURE
“The Fourth Wall” at island6 Shanghai
CREDITS
Shengqiu Li 李生秋 (painting) • Yang Suer 杨素儿 (performance) • Helen Chen 陈韵涵 (director of photography) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction) • Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (production supervisor) • Tiara Alvarado-Leon (blurb)
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