2007-05-24 until 2007-06-16
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, AU Australia
Ishiuchi, one of Japan’s leading contemporary photographers, will be the focus for an exhibition entitled mother’s and will comprise 68 photos relating to her recently deceased mother. Ishiuchi was the artist chosen to represent Japan at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. The moving series of photographs she exhibited at Venice was acclaimed as one of the Biennale highlights. The images are disturbingly poignant, personal and intimate. Ishiuchi’s early oeuvre focuses on buildings and street scenes, but in 1990 she shifted to photographs of the human form, starting with the group of works entitled 1•9•4•7, which featured close-up photographs of the hands and feet of women born the same year as Ishiuchi (1947). The artist’s own words in the accompanying catalogue illuminate her continuing preoccupations with time and decay: 'The hands, feet and face are always exposed to the air that surrounds the body and thus are subject to gradual destruction by the elements and time. The body, like a vessel which only receives what is given into it, accepts whatever time and the elements do to it. Things that make a body unique seem to gather at the extremes of the body.' read more
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