Publisher/New Gallery

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"Hikaru Utada Science Fiction Tour 2024 Nine Stories" is a collection of works by Japanese artist Hikaru Utada. Since her debut in 1998, Utada has continued to question the relationship between the individual and the times, transcending the boundaries of pop music. This book reconstructs her current position presented in the form of photographs during her 25th-anniversary tour, "SCIENCE FICTION TOUR 2024." Nine perspectives—Kimura Kazuhei's "Peeping," Suzuki Chikashi's "Fragment (part of)," Hosokura Mayumi's "Corporation," Kawauchi Rinko's "Overflowing Light," Moriyama Daido's "Relationship," John Yuyi's "Self-Projection," Wing Shya's "Kaleidoscope," Homma Takashi's "Simultaneity," and Noguchi Rika's "Existence"—bring to life the live performances in each city as distinct images. Rather than capturing the same event as a single record, the structure entrusts it to multiple gazes, which can be seen as an attempt to fixate the unique experience of a live performance in a multi-layered way. This book quietly demonstrates how elements such as body, light, and distance intersect and transform over time, using the existence of Utada Hikaru as a medium.