Thomas Ruff

01 Interieurs

1979—1983

室内

デュッセルドルフ芸術アカデミー在学中の作品。4x5インチ判の大型カメラを手に入れたルフは、ベルント・ベッヒャー教授に椅子を撮影する課題を与えられたことをきっかけに、生活空間としての室内というテーマに関心を持ちます。対象となったのは、友人たちや故郷の家族、親戚などの暮らす、身近な環境としての室内。家具の配置などには一切手を加えず、その場の光源だけで、ありのままに、客観的に撮影することで、部屋とそこに暮らす人々をめぐる何かを浮かび上がらせようとしました。

These works were made while Ruff was attending the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He had obtained a large-format camera that used 4 x 5-inch film, and after his teacher, Bernd Becher, gave him an assignment to take a picture of a chair, he became interested in the theme of interiors as living spaces. Ruff’s subjects were familiar environments where his friends, family, and relatives in his hometown lived. Without rearranging the furniture in any way or using any lighting other than what was already there, Ruff literally shot the rooms exactly as they were in order to capture distinctive features of the rooms and the people who lived there.