In 1978 Furuya photographed Christine Gößler for the first time, and he took pictures of her almost every day from then on. Christine Furuya-Gößler committed suicide after a long illness in 1985. However, neither did Furuya’s feeling of an “obligation” end there, nor was the possibility to find himself through this dialogue over for him. “Time and space” were fixed in thousands of pictures which he had taken over those seven years. And since then F.’s new task was to make these documents – and through them, Christine – talk to himself and others so as to prevent the vis-á-vis from disappearing. (M. Faber)

Seiichi Furuya, *1950 in Izu, Japan. Lives and works in Graz, Austria.