In reference to the famous exhibition »New Documents« (Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Gerry Winogrand, MOMA 1967), we are titling the exhibition at FOTOHOF with pictures by Paul Kranzler and Stefanie Moshammer in the gallery and Seiichi Furuya in the studio. »New Documents refined«. It shows photographs of the children, the grandmother, the partner – family pictures in the broadest sense and with very different approaches are the theme of the three prominent Austrian photographers.

Like most of his works, Seiichi Furuya’s series, which has also been published as a book, is the result of an almost forensic examination of his archive, in which he is constantly discovering and uncovering new things. In »Face To Face«, Seiichi Furuya juxtaposes his pictures with those taken of him by his wife Christine for the first time. Christine, who committed suicide in 1985, proves herself to be a talented and sensitive photographer.In the diptychs that Furuya arranges, Christine’s gaze is intertwined with that of Seiichi, who now also engages in the game of being the observed subject.
»While the visual memory work that Seiichi has done over the years is an incessant attempt to process his grief by incorporating his face into the framework of their love story, »Face to Face, 1978-1985« suggests that this endless research by the author could also be read as a desire to find traces of himself and the role he played in the memories of their life together. This series of images recounts a seven-year relationship in a visual dialog (…) in which photography plays a fundamental role: it dusts off buried memories and makes it possible to reconstruct the past, and at the same time it creates new memories influenced by perspective and the passage of time. « − R. Cerbarano
The exhibited prints by Seiichi Furuya are a gift from the photographer to the FOTOHOF>ARCHIV.