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Kering e il Kyotographie Festival
Creato nel 2015 in collaborazione con il Festival di Cannes, il programma Women In Motion ha raggiunto anche il Giappone a partire dal 2017, con un primo Talk con la regista Naomi Kawase, oltre che attraverso diverse partnership con i principali festival giapponesi. Da allora, il programma ha portato avanti il suo impegno per dare più visibilità ai talenti femminili e si è esteso in nuovi ambiti dell’arte e della cultura, inclusa la fotografia, in particolare attraverso la sua partnership con Kyotographie.
Women In Motion partner di Kyotographie 2024
Kyotographie 2024 indaga la “Fonte”
Dal 2021, Women In Motion patrocina il festival Kyotographie, un evento imperdibile per la fotografia internazionale in Giappone, che riunisce artisti noti e talenti emergenti e offre una visione inedita di questa forma d'arte.
Nel 2024, per la sua dodicesima edizione, il festival esplora il tema della “Fonte” attraverso tredici mostre e altrettante prospettive uniche. Tra le tematiche affrontate figurano il ritorno all'origine, l'eterno inizio, la nascita dei conflitti e gli inizi della libertà.
Dal 2023, Kering e Kyotographie danno spazio alle fotografe giapponesi offrendo a un'artista affermata l'opportunità di dialogare, in una mostra unica, con un artista emergente di sua scelta.
Così, dopo Ishiuchi Miyako e la sua collaborazione con Yuhki Touyama nel 2023, quest'anno è stata la pluripremiata artista Rinko Kawauchi a scegliere la sua partner tra talenti emergenti o poco noti. L'artista ha scelto il lavoro di Tokuko Ushioda, fotografa giapponese nata nel 1940, dando vita a una mostra unica dal titolo “From our windows”.
Le artiste omaggiate per l'edizione 2024
La mostra espone le fotografie di due artiste giapponesi appartenenti a generazioni diverse, ma accomunate dagli stessi soggetti.
Nelle opere di Rinko Kawauchi e Tokuko Ushioda, rispettivamente 52 e 84 anni, i soggetti scelti sono la famiglia e i bambini.
La prima, artista nota e riconosciuta, presenterà Cui Cui e as it is, e la seconda Ice Box e My Husband. Disposte in due spazi della stessa dimensione, comunicanti tra loro attraverso finestre, queste due serie di fotografie mettono in dialogo due diverse epoche e due approcci differenti alla fotografia.
Rinko Kawauchi
Nata nel 1972 a Shiga, in Giappone, Rinko Kawauchi è una fotografa riconosciuta a livello internazionale. Nel 2002 ha ricevuto il 27° Premio Kimura Ihei per le sue serie Utatane e Hanadi, mentre ventun'anni dopo si è aggiudicata l'Outstanding Contribution to Photography Sony. Tra le sue serie memorabili figurano Illuminance (2011), Ametsuchi (2013), e Halo (2017). I libri Yamanami (2022) e Making Daidai Shoten (2022, in collaborazione con Hisako Tajiri) documentano il suo lavoro, che è stato oggetto di numerose mostre in tutto il mondo, e in particolare in Giappone, come Rinko Kawauchi: M/E ― On this sphere Endlessly interlinking, presentata nel 2022 alla Galleria dell'Opera di Tokyo e nel 2023 al Museo d'Arte di Shiga.
Tokuko Ushioda
Nata a Tokyo nel 1940, Tokuko Ushioda è stata allieva di Kiyoji Otsuji alla Kuwasawa Design School, dove si è diplomata nel 1963, diventando più tardi anche insegnante. Tra il 1966 e il 1978 è stata docente dell'università Tokyo Zokein. Dal 1975 ha lavorato come fotografa freelance e si è concentrata su argomenti più personali come la serie Ice Box, per la quale ha fotografato il contenuto dei frigoriferi di diverse famiglie. Il riconoscimento tardivo per il suo lavoro è iniziato nel 2018, quando la sua serie Bibliotheca ha vinto il premio Domon Ken, il premio Lifetime Achievement della Società giapponese di fotografia e il premio della fotografia giapponese al Festival internazionale di fotografia di Higashikawa. Nel 2019 si è aggiudicata anche il premio speciale di Kuwasawa. Più recentemente, My Husband, un'edizione in due volumi della sua serie di foto intime scattate alla fine degli anni '80 e mai mostrate, ha ricevuto la Mention Spéciale du Jury, Prix du livre Paris Photo - Apertura Fondazione 2022.
Women In Motion e Kyotographie
Creato nel 2015 in collaborazione con il Festival di Cannes per valorizzare i talenti femminili e dare visibilità alle disuguaglianze che li riguardano, Women In Motion è giunto in Giappone a partire dal 2017 con un primo Talk tenuto dalla regista Naomi Kawase, oltre che attraverso diversi partenariati con i principali festival giapponesi. Inizialmente focalizzato solo sul cinema, il programma di Kering nel corso degli anni si è esteso a tutti i settori dell'arte e della cultura, compresa la fotografia.
Nel 2019, Women In Motion è diventato così partner dei Rencontres d’Arles e nel 2021 del Kyotographie, due importanti festival di fotografia. Nel 2021 il programma ha inoltre patrocinato la mostra “Women Artists from the MEP Studio: New perspectives in film and photography from France”, in collaborazione con la Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), durante la nona edizione del festival.
Women In Motion partners with Kyotographie 2023
Introducing “Border”, the theme of Kyotographie 2023
Since 2021, the Women In Motion program supports Kyotographie, the must-attend photography festival which brings together acclaimed artists and young talents to offer a fresh perspective on photographic art. This year’s theme, “Border”, explores how these lines identified as physical, transient, and temporary shape our existence and frame our experience; how they can protect, destroy, discriminate, and differentiate life in all forms.
Against this backdrop, Women In Motion is lending its support to the exhibition “Views through my window”, a dialogue between Ishiuchi Miyako and Yuhki Touyama that creates an inspiring dialogue between an established artist and an emerging talent.
Kyotographie 2023 featured artists
The exhibition juxtaposes the works of these Japanese women photographers from different generations, drawing a line between past, present and future. Created by Ishiuchi Miyako, “Mother’s” captures the story of the artist’s mother through close-ups of her clothing and personal belongings. The series bears witness to the sphere of intimacy while also shining a light on the changing place of women in contemporary Japan. With its wide-angle shots and images in motion “Kyoukai-sen 13 (Line 13)”– the series published by Yuhki Touyama – focuses on works she began following the death of a friend, and her latest work, which depicts her days caring for her grandmother. Enjoy the synergy between these two artists and the crossover of their photographic art works that transcend generations.
Ishiuchi Miyako
Ishiuchi Miyako was born in the Gunma Prefecture. In 1979, she won the fourth Kimura Ihei Award for her work Apartment. Later, in 2005, Miyako represented Japan at the Venice Biennale with her series "Mother’s". In 2007, she began her internationally-renowned series ひろしま／hiroshima, for which she photographs belongings of atom bomb victims (hibakusha). In 2013, Ishiuchi Miyako received the Japanese Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon, and in 2014 the Hasselblad Award (known as the ‘Nobel Prize for Photography’). She won the Asahi Prize, which honors individuals and groups who have made outstanding accomplishments in the fields of academia and the arts and have significantly contributed to the development and progress of Japanese culture and society at large.
Yuhki Touyama
Yuhki Touyama was born in Chiba in 1983. In 2004, she graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Department of Photography. Touyama’s work reveals the invisible world of life and death, time, sensations, and notions. Through her meticulous photography, Yuhki Touyama is able to express large swaths of time and grains of air in three dimensions.
Women In Motion and Kyotographie
Launched in 2015 as part of the Festival de Cannes, the Women In Motion program extended into Japan from 2017. This was followed by an initial Talk with film director, Naomi Kawase, and partnerships with prestigious Japanese festivals. Ever since, the program has stepped up its commitment to shine a light on women’s talent, expanding into new fields of the arts and culture such as photography.
The Kyotographie partnership was kick-started in 2019. In 2021, Women In Motion supported the “Women Artists from the MEP Studio: New perspectives in film and photography from France” exhibition, joining forces with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) for the ninth edition of Kyotographie. By supporting this exhibition in Kyotographie, Women In Motion is further developing its activities and commitments to helping women in the world of photography. It is also encouraging a debate about their contribution and recognition in both this discipline and culture and the arts in general, with inequality now being an issue for all areas of the creative arts.
Women in Motion al decimo anniversario di Kyotographie
Kyotographie 2022: celebrating a decade of photographic creativity
In 2013, French photographer, Lucille Reyboz, and Japanese light artist, Yusuke Nakanishi, created the Kyotographie festival with an ambition to showcase traditional and contemporary photographic art, presenting both Japanese and international artists. The month-long festival takes place at a dozen of venues in the ancient city of Kyoto, creating an artistic dialogue and providing a platform for discussion and encounters between recognized photographers and emerging talent.
As a partner of Kyotographie, the Women In Motion program supports the “10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Women Photographers” exhibition, curated by Kyotographie’s co-founder/co-director Reyboz and Nakanishi, and with photography historian and independent curator, Pauline Vermare. To honor a decade of Kyotographie as well as its host country, this exhibition brings together ten contemporary Japanese photographers. The works of the featured women artists give a reflection and a perspective of Japanese society and social issues that each of the face and are expressed in powerful and distinctive ways.
Kyotographie 2022 featured artists
The “10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Women Photographers” exhibition unites the artistic talents of ten Japanese women photographers: Yukari Chikura, Noriko Hayashi, Mayumi Hosokura, Ariko Inaoka, Ai Iwane, Momo Okabe, Harumi Shimizu, Mayumi Suzuki, Hideka Tonomura and Tamaki Yoshida. In the words of the curators, the exhibition is designed “as a symphony comprising ten individual exhibitions” – a nod to this year’s theme, "One". It also reflects the festival’s multi-faceted purpose, which fosters appreciation of photography as a medium of artistic expression and as an art form. The exhibition’s original scenography by Kyoto based architect Hiromitsu Konishi of miso, presents a history of Japanese women’s photography, embracing diversity.
Yukari Chikura
After graduating from university, Chikura became a music composer, arranger, and programmer. Following the words of her late father, she visited a village deep in snow and encountered a 1300-year-old festival called Zaido. This series of works, Zaido was published by Steidl in 2020. (Zaido was selected as Best Photo Book 2020 of Photo-eye, Vogue, LensCulture and Vanity Fair, among others). Chikura has won LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards, Lucie Photobook Prize, etc, and her work is in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Griffin Museum, and the Musée National de France.
ZAIDO ©Yukari Chikura
Noriko Hayashi
Documentarist focusing on social and gender issues. She will exhibit sawasawato, a long-term project about "Japanese wives" living in North Korea. While considering the representation of personal history and the social memory that surrounds it, Hayashi weaves together and reconstructs the individual memories that pass between Japan and the Korean peninsula. In 2019, she published Photo Documentary: Japanese Wives in Korea: 60 Years of Memories (Iwanami Shinsho). Hayashi’s work has been recognized internationally with awards such as the Visa d’Or feature award at the Visa pour l’Image festival and the NPPA Best of Photojournalism.
Sawasawato ©Noriko Hayashi
Mayumi Hosokura
Hosokura reorganizes natural boundaries regarded natural between organism and mineral, human and animal, human and machine, also nationalities and races, based on sexuality and gender. Focusing on "how women see men," Hosokura will present "NEW SKIN" series, an installation of photographs and video, in which she has photographed and collaged images from such mediums as gay magazines and sculptures from museums. Selected publications and solo exhibitions include “NEW SKIN” (2020, MACK) and Sen to Me (Takuro Someya Contemporary Art 2021 Tokyo).
NEW SKIN ©︎Mayumi Hosokura
Ariko Inaoka
In 2002, she visited Iceland, where she was fascinated by the scenery of the water and began traveling to Iceland. In 2009, she began photographing two twin sisters she met in Iceland; this project continued for eight years and led to the 2020 release of her photobook, Eagle and Raven (Akaaka Art Publishing). Inaoka says that these works are connected to the landscape of Kyoto, where she was born and raised, and to Japanese animism, something that is being lost in Japan. In 2014, she became the 16th head of the family business, founded over 550 years ago. She continues to lead a double work life, as head of the Owariya soba shop and photographer.
Eagle and Raven ©︎Ariko Inaoka
Ai Iwane
In 1991, she left for the United States to study at Petrolia High School, where she pursued an off-the-grid, self-sustaining lifestyle. In 2018, she released the photo book KIPUKA (Seigensha Art Publishing), focusing on the immigrant ties between Hawaii and Fukushima, which was awarded the 44th Kimura Ihei Photography Award and the 44th Ina Nobuo Award. Iwane, who says that "the boundary between nature and humans became blurred" while walking around the cherry blossom viewing spots in Tohoku where the light ups were canceled due to COVID-19, will exhibit "NEW RIVER," the series of works in which she photographed cherry blossoms and traditional Japanese dances in the dark.
A NEW RIVER ©︎Ai Iwane
Momo Okabe
Major awards include the New Cosmos of Photography Special Award (selected by Nobuyoshi Araki 1999, P3 art and environment, Tokyo) and the Foam Paul Huf Award (2015, Foam Photography Museum, the Netherlands). She was selected for the 19th Hitotsubo Exhibition (2002, Guardian Garden, Tokyo) Major exhibitions include "Dildo & Bible" (2015, Foam Photography Museum, the Netherlands; Gallery Naruyama, Tokyo; other). Published photobooks include Dildo (2013, Session Press), Bible (2014, Session Press), and Ilmatar (2020, Mandarake) among others. The exhibition will feature Ilmatar, works photographed between 2012 and 2019, including her own pregnancy and childbirth, which Okabe describes as "an epic poem for all people living today".
ILMATAR 2020 Archival color C-print ©Momo Okabe
Harumi Shimizu
Major solo exhibitions include "The Plants" in the Voynich Manuscript at IMA Gallery, 2019; "Open fruit is god"at gallery blanka, 2015; icedland at Place M, 2014. She has participated in group exhibitions such as Asama International Photo Festival at Nagano, 2018; Lumix Meets Beyond 2020 by Japanese Photographers #4 at Amsterdam, Paris, Tokyo, 2016. Mutant animals and artificially hybridized plants are captured from the perspective of natural history, which are framed and photographed in contrast to the human body. The exhibition will feature the series mutation / creation, an archive of images of rare individuals and artificially created improved varieties.
mutation / creation ©︎Harumi Shimizu
Mayumi Suzuki
She grew up in a family that ran a photo studio founded by her grandfather in 1930, and at the age of 18, she began studying in the Department of Photography of Nihon University College of Art. After graduating, she worked as a freelance photographer, focusing on portraits. With the great east Japan earthquake that struck on March 11, 2011, Suzuki’s hometown Onagawa in the Miyagi Prefecture was destroyed by the tsunami and her parents lost their lives. Since then, she has frequently returned to her hometown to record the efforts of people in the area to move forward from the disaster. Since 2020, she has been working on her new project Hojo (fertility), which portrays her experience going through infertility treatment, will be on show.
HOJO ©︎Mayumi Suzuki
Hideka Tonomura
She published her first photobook mama love in 2008, revealing her deepest pain and the dark, hidden secrets of her family, leaving an unforgettable impression. In 2013 she published They called me Yukari, in which she documented the life and people around her when she was working as a hostess. In 2019, Tonomura started the Shining Woman Project—a portrait project dedicated to women who fight cancer, in which a publication was released in 2020. She will participate in "Love Songs," a group exhibition to be held at the MEP in Paris in March 2022. For Kyotographie 2022, Tonomura will exhibit works from the series “die of love" which is a "theater of love" in her style, capturing the joys and sorrows of daily life and nighttime cityscapes.
die of love ©Hideka Tonomura
Tamaki Yoshida
Yoshida has a special connection to nature. She is the winner of the KG＋SELECT Grand Prix in 2021 with her work, Negative Ecology, which will be on show at Kyotographie 2022. Imagining how people's daily lives are encroaching on wildlife and the natural world, Negative Ecology was taken in Hokkaido, northern Japan where there’s a rich environment of wildlife. To create this multidimensional work Yoshida uses various external elements/additives like detergent, abrasives, and toothpaste in her development process. These negatives exist as a metaphor for wildlife and nature that have been contaminated and destroyed. The images that emerge from these damaged negatives have a powerful impact depending on how you look at them.
Negative Ecology ©︎Tamaki Yoshida
Mayumi Suzuki
Hideka Tonomura
Tamaki Yoshida
Yukari Chikura
Noriko Hayashi
Mayumi Hosokura
Ariko Inaoka
Ai Iwane
Momo Okabe
Harumi Shimizu
Mayumi Suzuki
Hideka Tonomura
Tamaki Yoshida
Yukari Chikura
Noriko Hayashi
Mayumi Hosokura
Women In Motion and Kyotographie
Launched in 2015 as part of the Festival de Cannes, the Women In Motion program extended into Japan from 2017. This was followed by an initial Talk with film director, Naomi Kawase, and partnerships with prestigious Japanese festivals. Ever since, the program has stepped up its commitment to shine a light on women’s talent, expanding into new fields of the arts and culture such as photography.
The Kyotographie partnership was kick-started in 2019. In 2021, Women In Motion supported the “Women Artists from the MEP Studio: New perspectives in film and photography from France” exhibition, joining forces with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) for the ninth edition of Kyotographie. By supporting this exhibition in Kyotographie, Women In Motion is further developing its activities and commitments to helping women in the world of photography. It is also encouraging a debate about their contribution and recognition in both this discipline and culture and the arts in general, with inequality now being an issue for all areas of the creative arts.
Women In Motion supports women photographers at Kyotographie 2021
A new perspective on photography
Launched in 2013, the Kyotographie festival showcases traditional and contemporary photographic art. The works of Japanese and international artists are presented in the ancient city of Kyoto over four weeks. The exhibitions are staged in multiple venues, ranging from historic buildings to modern architectural spaces. This not only creates a dialogue between past and present, but also reveals the duality of Japan’s former capital. Kyotographie is a multi-faceted festival which fosters appreciation of photography as a medium of expression and as an art form.
Women In Motion, Kyotographie, and MEP
The ninth edition of Kyotographie is centered around the theme “ECHO.” It explores the idea that tragic events may create distinctive echos based on an individual’s personal circumstances. Against this backdrop, Women In Motion is lending its support to the collective exhibition: “Women Artists from the MEP Studio: New perspectives in film and photography from France.” The exhibition, which is curated by MEP Director, Simon Baker, brings together the works of five young French female artists: Marguerite Bornhauser, Manon Lanjouère, Adèle Gratacos de Volder and the duo, Nina Cholet and Clothilde Matta.
All five artists reveal the current richness, diversity, and originality of emerging French photography. Their new approaches also reflect a new type of art at the crossroads of multiple genres and disciplines whose hybrid images share a sense of narrative and a taste for blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
The exhibition will be held from September 18th to October 17th, 2021, at the HOSOO gallery, in Kyoto.
3 questions to Simon Baker, MEP Director
3 questions to Marguerite Bornhauser, Adèle Gratacos de Volder, Manon Lanjouère, Nina Cholet and Clothilde Matta
3 questions to Simon Baker, MEP Director
3 questions to Marguerite Bornhauser, Adèle Gratacos de Volder, Manon Lanjouère, Nina Cholet and Clothilde Matta
3 questions to Simon Baker, MEP Director
3 questions to Marguerite Bornhauser, Adèle Gratacos de Volder, Manon Lanjouère, Nina Cholet and Clothilde Matta
Marguerite Bornhauser
Marguerite Bornhauser is a photographer and visual artist born in 1989. She lives and works in Paris. Her work has been shown in several art institutions, galleries, and art festivals in many different countries. Marguerite Bornhauser adds editorial work to her photographic research. She collaborates with French and international magazines and newspapers as a photojournalist and portrait photographer while also working as a fashion photographer.
Nina Cholet et Clothilde Matta
Collaborating since 2018, Nina Cholet and Clothilde Matta have formed a multidisciplinary duo: one is a visual artist and an actress, the other is a filmmaker and a dancer. Their practice mixes photography, video, performance, and installation. Their artistic research focuses on a sensory and intuitive approach to depicting intimacy. Using sensual and poetical images, they deal with the representation of the female body.
Manon Lanjouère
Manon Lanjouère was born in 1993 and lives and works in Paris. Her work is a constant reflection on the medium and its semantics. In this spirit, Manon encourages the beholder to question the authenticity of the photographic medium. Her work has been exhibited in several festivals in France and Europe, including the Athens Photo Festival. In 2020, Manon curated her first solo show at the MEP in Paris.
Adèle Gratacos de Volder
Born in 1993, Adèle Gratacos de Volder lives and works in Brussels. She is a graduate of the La Cambre National School of Visual Arts in Belgium where she studied sculpture, video and installation. Adèle develops a multidisciplinary practice using film, photography, sound and text to explore the fragility of intimacy. Editing is key to her photographic and filmic research.
About Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), located in the historic heart of Paris, is a major center for contemporary photographic art which opened in 1996. Supporting emerging talent is a vital part of the MEP’s mission. In 2018, the MEP created the Studio, a new space dedicated to first solo shows of emerging artists committed to strengthening the visibility of young women artists.