intimacy

With utmost care, Eiki Mori's intimacy discloses tenderness and fatigue lived by the men as the conflicting fragments of affect. Intimacy testifies to this temporality of homoerotics, or what I would call the lived temporality of dazzling tedium. Foregrounding the shadows and their vibrations, intimacy incribes how homoerotic desires can be lived together, not in some dramatic compositions, but through and as an everyday temporality of minute transformations. In intimacy, the secret within an intimate temporality between men remans preserved as secrecy and unfolds itself before us secretly. - Ikuo Shinjo - Winner of the 2013 Kimura Ihei Award -