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GREENLANDS' is a series of images that charts the daily existance of the green areas of Kanagawa, a suburb of Southern Metropolitan Tokyo.

'GREENLANDS' was opened by Mr. Torao Sato from the Japanese Embassy.

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"What I try to seize upon in my photographs is the dailiness of everyday existence. The green areas of southern suburban Tokyo read as a structured social map of the banality of daily existence

The photographs try to bring to light, through their strong visual presence, the almost unreality of this dailiness. They seek to scrutinise every detail of a scene and lay it bare.

The scenes depicted are a metaphor for contemporary structures of society and power. They interrogate the influence of power structures over how the landscape is used in a culture far removed from our own western one, a culture that on closer examination is a surprisingly familiar one." - Dara McGrath

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ABOUT THE ARTIST
McGrath is a documentary photographer. His lens-based work engages with a variety of themes through contemporary society. In ‘Between the Lines’ his most major work to date focused on the Borders of Europe that have spun out its own history while confronting the condition of their contiguity. In his trilogy, ‘By the Way’, ‘A land Removed ‘ and ‘Plantation’ he records the changing topography of the New Ireland that has emerged over the recent years. His work in Japan ‘Green lands” focuses on the dailiness of everyday life as it unfolds in the green areas of suburban Tokyo.

His work in progress, ‘Peripheries’ reveals the dystopic condition of suburban France and of Europe, told through its architecture
In capturing the image of nature while retaining also the incongruities and queer harmony that emerges from evidence of human intervention, his work shows us landscapes entirely different in their expression from what we are accustomed to. McGrath’s keen eye shows us that unknown discoveries lie concealed even in the scenery that unfolds aimlessly before our very eyes.