**Ichiro Ogata Ono Yu Ogata**

**「東京の家 Eclectic Chinese Homes 」**

尾形 一郎（オガタ イチロウ、旧姓：小野一郎）：

京都生まれ。早稲田大学院理工学研究科建築計画修了。

尾形 優（オガタ ユウ）：

東京生まれ。早稲田大学理工学部建築学科卒業。

写真家・建築家・現代美術家。主な写真集・著書に、二人が制作する自宅の変遷を写真とエッセイでつづった『私たちの「東京の家」』（羽鳥書店）、世界を巡って文化的な特異地点の家を集めた『HOUSE』(フォイル）、メキシコの過剰装飾を撮った『ウルトラバロック』(新潮社）、『DIVINE EXCESS』（CHRONICLE BOOKS）、『MEXICO:HOTELS』（アスペクト）、主な建築作品に、撮影した写真の内容を建築空間やジオラマに変換した「東京の家」、大型プリントで迷宮空間をつくった「フォトハウス」などがある。

The transformation of the house created by photographers, architects and contemporary artists Ogata Ichiro Ono and Ogata Yu has been compiled in photographs and essays in the publication "Our Eclectic Tokyo Home", which we announce along with the opening of this exhibition. In their quest to create a home brought forth by the meeting of different cultures and the threat of nature, the Ogatas have continually been shooting on the fringes of the world: in their Tokyo home images collected in China, Namibia, Mexico and many other places proliferate while changing shape in terms of structure and interior and even incorporating a model railway. The works shown in this exhibition are a series of photographs taken in Southern China, in farms and in towns. In every one of these houses built around a hundred years ago, Chinese traditions and American culture fight against each other and, with their abandoned state since the age of Communism, offer a scene that resembles the set of a movie. In the framework of the gallery space, the photographs are enclosed like a set embedded world, expressing the eternal chain of images that an ever-shifting culture brings into peoples' everyday lives.