Between LightGallery 4 · East Wing06 / 06
Large colour photograph of a concrete highway overpass in heavy rain at dusk, streaked with car headlights.
Large colour photograph of a concrete highway overpass in heavy rain at dusk, streaked with car headlights.

Stop 6 · Audio guide

Overpass, Rain

Kenji Arai,

Medium
Archival pigment print
Dimensions
100 × 150 cm

Guide transcript

Our final stop brings us to the present. Kenji Arai stood beneath this Tokyo overpass during a typhoon, waiting for the moment when the last daylight matched the brightness of the headlights. The long exposure turns passing cars into ribbons of light, while the concrete remains heavy and still. After the quiet harbour where we began, notice how this image is full of motion and noise, and yet it shares the same patience. Every photograph in this room is about waiting for light. Thank you for joining us for Between Light.