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Rinko Kawauchi

  • Exhibition, Paris
  • Fri 18 Mar → Sun 05 Jun 2005
Rinko Kawauchi 2005
Vue de l'exposition Rinko Kawauchi, 2005 © Rinko Kawauchi Office Co. Ltd. All rights reserved

Location

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

261 boulevard Raspail

75014 Paris

Rinko Kawauchi, one of the most celebrated young Japanese photographers of her generation, presents her first European solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.

For this exceptional event, the artist has chosen to show a large selection of photographs from the AILA series (2004) and exhibit her two most recent series to the public for the first time: Cui Cui and The eyes, the ears.

With her camera, Rinko Kawauchi captures those details of everyday life that are all too easily missed by the busy passer-by—water dripping from a faucet, a crack in a watermelon, a spoonful of tapioca. Seen through the well-attuned eyes of the artist, ordinary objects and occurrences become charged with beauty, poetry and emotion. Arranging her images in a way that reveals unexpected conflations of forms, moods or atmospheres, Rinko Kawauchi creates subtle, open-ended narratives that encourage us to engage with the infinite wonders of the world.

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