Softcover with handmade acrylic case and print
ISBN:
9781999814458
Simonet’s In Bloom operates as a frenetic, hallucinatory love letter to the nocturnal underbellies of Tokyo and Osaka. Departing from traditional documentary travelogues, the project functions more like a fever dream or a deeply personal diary of excess, capturing an atmosphere of sensory overload, exuberance, and entropy. Simonet throws himself into the vibrant chaos of the Japanese metropolis, exploring the fluid boundaries between the human body, cybernetic decor, and profound artifice.
This project represented a maturation of Simonet's experimental practice, marking a shift toward the aggressive physical manipulation of the photographic surface as a means of expressing psychological saturation and urban exhaustion.
Simonet’s In Bloom operates as a frenetic, hallucinatory love letter to the nocturnal underbellies of Tokyo and Osaka. Departing from traditional documentary travelogues, the project functions more like a fever dream or a deeply personal diary of excess, capturing an atmosphere of sensory overload, exuberance, and entropy. Simonet throws himself into the vibrant chaos of the Japanese metropolis, exploring the fluid boundaries between the human body, cybernetic decor, and profound artifice.
This project represented a maturation of Simonet's experimental practice, marking a shift toward the aggressive physical manipulation of the photographic surface as a means of expressing psychological saturation and urban exhaustion.
Simonet’s In Bloom operates as a frenetic, hallucinatory love letter to the nocturnal underbellies of Tokyo and Osaka. Departing from traditional documentary travelogues, the project functions more like a fever dream or a deeply personal diary of excess, capturing an atmosphere of sensory overload, exuberance, and entropy. Simonet throws himself into the vibrant chaos of the Japanese metropolis, exploring the fluid boundaries between the human body, cybernetic decor, and profound artifice.
This project represented a maturation of Simonet's experimental practice, marking a shift toward the aggressive physical manipulation of the photographic surface as a means of expressing psychological saturation and urban exhaustion.