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Michiko Kon “Recent Works 2018”
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Michiko Kon
Michiko Kon delves deep into her subconscious to bring back inspiration for her otherworldly still life images. Since the mid-1980s she has been transforming seemingly mundane objects like vegetables, sea life, flowers and insects into chimerical objet d’art which she then photographs and prints herself.
In recent years, Kon has produced a number of pieces in Mexico, using local motifs and playing her own views on life and death off of the region’s unique amalgam of religion and occultism. Alongside the insects and taxidermied animals often found in her photographs, she has also begun utilizing silkworms, larvae and cocoons in an attempt to more accurately express transmigration and the circle of life.
Her imaginary beasts, draped in eyeballs and flowers or robed in garments of fish and cocoons, transcend the taxidermy and forgotten antiques they’re made from and take on an inexplicable sensuality, becoming so alive the lush handmade silver halide prints can barely contain them. Like the fantastical creatures of myth and folklore, these creations hail from Kon’s own allegories on life, death, and devotion. Kon’s sinisterly silent creations trigger primal emotions—lust, disgust and everything in between. To view them is to invite them into the deepest reaches of your own subconscious.
In recent years, Kon has produced a number of pieces in Mexico, using local motifs and playing her own views on life and death off of the region’s unique amalgam of religion and occultism. Alongside the insects and taxidermied animals often found in her photographs, she has also begun utilizing silkworms, larvae and cocoons in an attempt to more accurately express transmigration and the circle of life.
Her imaginary beasts, draped in eyeballs and flowers or robed in garments of fish and cocoons, transcend the taxidermy and forgotten antiques they’re made from and take on an inexplicable sensuality, becoming so alive the lush handmade silver halide prints can barely contain them. Like the fantastical creatures of myth and folklore, these creations hail from Kon’s own allegories on life, death, and devotion. Kon’s sinisterly silent creations trigger primal emotions—lust, disgust and everything in between. To view them is to invite them into the deepest reaches of your own subconscious.
Schedule | Mar 7 (Wed) 2018-Apr 28 (Sat) 2018 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.pgi.ac/en/exhibitions/4049/ | ||||
| Venue | PGI http://www.pgi.ac/index.php?lang=en | ||||
| Location | 3F TKB Bldg., 2-3-4 Higashi-azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044 | ||||
| Access | 4 minute walk from the Nakanohashi exit of Akabanebashi Station on the Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 6 at Azabu-juban Station on the Namboku or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 1 at Kamiyacho Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5114-7935 | ||||
| Related images | Click on the image to enlarge it |
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