A Metamathematical Proposition. Photographs by Shigeru Onishi. Text by Ryuichi Kaneko. Edited by Manfred Heiting. Published by Steidl.
A Metamathematical Proposition is like a montage in a David Lynch movie or a fever dream in sepia and black ink: some clear views of domestic life or restful places, like a shore’s edge or temple, then close-ups of chains, then trees ominous as insects and many things too messy to be distinguished and all the compacting double, triple, quadruple exposures – the images layered one on the other seemingly through an unknown, but inherently elegant logic. This is not what the artist intended, but if Dead of Night is depictions of car wrecks at rest after their follies, then A Metamathematical Proposition is the images that flashed before the drivers’ eyes as they crashed.
