Kimiko Yoshida's self portraits sublimate a childhood marked by abandon and wandering. Her costumes are nourished by fantasies, memories, dreams and legends... Ghostly, travestied into a man or hermaphrodite, this Japanese artist endlessly questions identity, wholeness, universality. Her photographs, videos and installations let her face appear or disappear, disguised and made up. Subtle, fictional and paradoxical, she creates, according to the precepts of Taninzaki's celebrated essay, In Praise of Shadows, luminous evocations of her inner fantasies. Her desire to hybridize cultures and transform being bring her to multiple metamorphoses, in an invented universe, propitious to a systematic personal decontruction. "Everyone in the world tries to be unique, I want to be numerous, become universal."
Recent exhibitions
2006 : “Sakura at Arthus-Bertrand”, parcours Saint-Germain-des-Près, Paris 2006 : «Art-Paris», Grand-Palais, Paris 2006 : “All That’s Not Me…”, The Israël Museum, Jerusalem, Israël 2006 : "Self-portraits with a Comma", The Heder Contempory Art, Tel-Aviv, Israël 2005 : 1st Price, category “Self-portrait”, International Photography Awards, New York 2005 : “Birth of a Geisha”, Ellen Curlee Gallery, Saint-Louis, USA 2005 : “Birth of a Geisha”, Flatfile Galleries, Chicago 2005 : “Birth of a Geisha”, Transphotographiques, Broel Museum, Courtrai, Belgium 2005 : "Incarnations", Tribeca Issey Miyake, New York, USA 2004 : “Who Is Afraid of Kimiko ?”, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium 2004 : “Marry Me !”, Aoyama Book Center, Tokyo 2004 : “Silver Pavillon”, 19e Biennale Internationale pour la Créativité dans l'habitat interieur, Courtrai, Belgium 2004 : "Marry Me!", 35èmes Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France 2004 : «Autoportraits monochromes”, Galerie Métropolis, Lyon, France 2004 : “Monochrome Self-portraits”, Rocket Gallery, Tokyo 2003 : "Marry Me!", Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France ...
