Composed of found images of Japanese culture from the late 1980s and 1990s along with his own photographs, Index of Fillers is a recreation of artist Fumi Ishino's elusive memory of growing up during this era in Japan. Referencing the traditional format of Japanese comic strips, each image panel contains its own nostalgic narrative—from a cartoon Clearasil commercial to a video game rendering of a neighborhood to the interior of a love hotel. With a machine-embroidered felt cover housed inside a woven pencil case, each handmade book is unique and also includes a CD with a video piece made in Ishino’s childhood room.
Index of Fillers is the artist’s second monograph following his acclaimed publication rowing a tetrapod and is the first artist book published by Assembly, a new global platform co-founded by Ashlyn Davis Burns (former Executive Director & Curator of Houston Center for Photography) and Shane Lavalette (artist and former Director of Light Work) supporting lens-based artists across the fine art and commercial sectors.
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