03-18-2008
Rinko Kawauchi exhibition in Paris
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«Utatane»
presenté par Antoine de Vilmorin
Opening reception with Rinko Kawauchi:
April 3, 6:30 pm
Exhibition
April 4 - Mai 3, 2008
77, rue des Archives
75003 Paris
The photographs are part from Rinko Kawauchi's series entitled "Utatane" (2001). "Utatane" is a Japanese word that defines a state between wakefulness and sleep – dozing perhaps. They demonstrate the concentrated intentness with which Rinko Kawauchi is able to heed what she calls "the little voices that have been whispering to her since childhood".
These are the source upon which she draws, the intimate origin of a world described here according to a highly personal aesthetic: Utatane re-creates a fragmentary and fleeting world in which every detail relates to notions of birth, life, death and the passage of time.
In cooperation with Galerie Priska Pasquer
