Rinko Kawauchi
Series: Ametsuchi
2013
Website source - http://www.aperture.org/traveling-exhibitions/rinko-kawauchi-ametsuchi/
B. 1972 Shiga, Japan
Works in Tokyo
Well known for her photographic book publications.
These works were exhibited under the title Ametsuchi; a word composed of two Japanese characters meaning heaven and earth. The images reveal insights and tensions of heaven and earth - people scaled down against large environmental settings, scenes of crop burning insight cultivation and recovery processes. It takes a certain feeling to accept that the burning is part of the cycle of cultivation for these crops, what seems so destructive is in fact necessary. Kawauchi is able to capture a cyclical essence of life.
Series: "the eyes, the ears"
2005
Interested in the ephemeral
"likes shooting bugs, flowers and living things that are small... that live for a short time"
A point of contact is sweetly fragile with infinite possibility - Gloria Sutton
This series of work speaks to my interest in the softness of touch, the ephemerality of a sweet encounter and the power of the quality of light in an image. I love her use of natural light.
I have learnt that Rinko shoots almost exclusively with Fuji 400 film and she does this because it renders that lovely cool cyan aesthetic (which I am mildly obsessed with).
All of her work seems to reveal her awareness and closeness with every little tiny breath of life, every moment of being and existence can be simplified and exaggerated simultaneously in Rinko's work. In this sense I find it very emotional work to view, especially the eyes.. the ears. Looking at her work I actually feel as if she has given me a gift; there is such pleasure in being shown these rare, ephemeral moments.
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