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Osamu Yokonami, “Assembly I-5” (2014)

For his project Assembly, Osamu Yokonami created a series of photographs of secondary school girls in different natural environments, questioning the notion of individuality within a uniform group.

Born in Tokyo in 1976, Osamu Yokonami works as an artist and a fashion and advertising photographer.

A concept at the heart of Japanese society

As the Art Loft Asia gallery’s website explains, Assembly illustrates to a certain degree the idea expressed by Gilles Deleuze, claiming that ‘individuals have become “dividuals”, and masses, samples, data, markets, or “banks”.’ In the photographs in the series Assembly, in their choreographed movements, young girls dressed in the same school uniform—illustrating the powerful role clothes play in the notion of collective identity—form a single entity.

Surrounded by nature, they walk through field