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In Yûichi
Yokoyama’s Travel, the storyline is as linear
as it is sharp: it is the long, silent and crystalline description
of a train ride undertaken by three men. The subject Yokoyama depicts
here is less the train’s trajectory (the distances covered, the
regions travelled through) than the travel that takes place within
the train itself. As soon as the train departs, the characters set
out to walk through the string of cars and are confronted with the
vehicle’s architecture, its machine-like environment. But above
all, they are confronted with the gaze, the stares and the physical
presence of other passengers: in a train one observes others, one
passes by, one looks at others pass by, one impinges upon and disturbs
one another, and sometimes meet. This is why this travel experience
is above all, mostly conveyed through the representation of faces
and interiors, with maybe at the end of the ride, at the very end,
only at its furthest point, a promised encounter with landscape.
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