AKARUIMIRAI

AKARUIMIRAI — Daisuke Matsumoto

In AKARUIMIRAI, Daisuke Matsumoto constructs a photographic sequence organised around conflict, mishap, and human failure. The images do not resolve — they accumulate, circling the same errors and accidents as though repetition were the only available logic. Matsumoto's approach is punk-inflected and critical: humour and cruelty coexist without hierarchy, and creation and destruction are treated as interchangeable states. The result is a vision of a future that does not improve so much as recur.

Published by Zen Foto Gallery, AKARUIMIRAI is a signed softcover edition of 500 copies. The book measures 220 × 148 mm, runs to 24 pages, and contains 16 photographs. It is a compact object — modest in scale, considered in form — consistent with the small-edition artist publications that define Zen Foto Gallery's output in contemporary Japanese photography.

Matsumoto was born in 1985 in Tottori, Japan, and is based in Tokyo. His practice draws on real-world events, staged scenes, and everyday objects to produce work that is simultaneously satirical and analytical. AKARUIMIRAI sits alongside his other titles available here: TSUMITOBATSU – Daisuke Matsumoto and SEKAINOHEIWA — Daisuke Matsumoto. Further titles in Photography & Photobooks are available through the collection.