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31/5/2007

Kimiko Yoshida

Galerie Albert Benamou Paris e Galeria D'Arte Venezia, Venezia

La Mia Morte non lo sapra' mai

Curated by Albert Benamou and Albert Koski

Subtle, fictional, paradoxical, Kimiko Yoshida's Bachelor Brides form an ensemble of quasi-monochromatic self-portraits, fragments of an intimate web, elaborating on a singular story: the feminine condition in Japan. Her images are large format (120x120cm), luminous squares, underlining her fantasy-bio epic. While still very young, Kimiko Yoshida was struck by the story of her own mother, who met her husband for the fjrst time on her wedding day. Kimiko Yoshida's own story is compelling. Born in Japan, she lefted to France in 1995, where she adopted a new language, a new way to live, to create. She studied photography at the Ecole Nationale at Arles, later she went to Le Fresnoy-Studio des arts contemporains at Tourcoing.

For five years now Kimiko Yoshida has been concentrating on this series of "intangible self-portraits" which can be read as a quest for the hybridization of cultures, for the transformation of the being, and perhaps even as a deletion of identities. The metamorphosis of her own identity into a multiplicity of identifications expresses the fading of uniqueness, the "desconstruction" of the 'self'.

Recent exhibitions: 2006-2007
Centro de Art Moderna, Casa Das Mudas, Madeira, Portugal 'Tudo o que nao seja eu'; Galerie Albert Benamou et Galeria D'Arte Venezia, Italy; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, Arizona, USA 'Art Is an Idea : the Moquay Collection' ; Fukuoka, Japan 'Essences Insensées' ; RUARTS Gallery, Moscow, Russia 'Marry Me ! Self-portraits.

Vernissage Party: Saturday, June 9th 2007, 6-9 pm

Galerie Albert Benamou Paris e Galeria D'Arte Venezia
3336 Salizada San Samuele - Venezia

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