Rinko Kawauchi "Hajimari no hi" ©Rinko Kawauchi
POST is a gallery in Ebisu. POST is a space where each publishing company holds its own projects and exhibitions, allowing visitors to view photo books that cannot be seen in regular bookstores, and to experience the individuality and worldview of the "publishers" that are usually difficult to see. Many visitors may have learned the pleasure of looking at photo books from the perspective of "publishers" for the first time at this exhibition.
An exhibition by Rinko Kawauchi will be held at the gallery until Sunday, May 13. This is in commemoration of the publication of her photo-picture book "Hajimari no hi.
Rinko Kawauchi "Hajimari no hi" ©Rinko Kawauchi
The following are excerpts from the words of "POST" on the occasion of this exhibition. (Some of them have been supplemented.)
The photographs in this book ("Hajimari no Hi") were mainly taken before and after the major event of childbirth. This experience naturally led the photographer's perspective to the landscapes and small creatures she encountered in her daily life. Through Kawauchi's fresh sensibility, the realizations that came with the birth of her child appear in the form of a picture book of photographs and short texts. The birth of a life and the end of a life are somehow connected, and in the time we live, we sometimes encounter and sometimes lose important things. However, all of these events are also the beginning of something new, the beginning of the next "day. The fact that she uses familiar events as her subjects is, oddly enough, similar to her early work "Utatane". In this milestone year, some 20 years after her first solo exhibition, she returns to the world of her early works through pregnancy and childbirth. In the photographer's own words, she may have finally "come full circle. This photo-picture book is a book for children who will be carving out their own world, but it is also a book for adults who will be able to empathize with and enjoy it as a collection of photographs. It is like a good luck charm for all those who are about to take a new step forward.
Rinko Kawauchi "Hajimari no hi" ©Rinko Kawauchi
In almost all of Ms. Kawauchi's works, life and death, the brilliance and awe of life...such things seem to lurk deep within. I wonder how her personal experiences have influenced her style. It might be interesting to watch the film with this in mind.
Text_Shinri Kobayashi
Rinko Kawauchi / Hajimari no hi
Dates: April 27 (Friday) - May 13 (Sunday)
Venue: POST
Address: 2-10-3 Ebisu-Minami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Hours: 12:00 - 20:00
Closed: Every Monday (open on April 29)
Rinko Kawauchi "Hajimari no hi
Price: ￥2,315+tax
Specifications: bound in laminated paper
Number of pages: 32
Number of photographs: 20 in color
Size:B5 variable ( 240mm (H) x 185mm (W) )
Publisher:Kyuryudo
Michiko Kawauchi
Born in 1972 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, he received the 27th Ihei Kimura Photography Award in 2002 for his works "Utatane" and "Hanabi" and in 2009 was awarded the 25th ICP Infinity Award in the Artistic Division. His latest book of photographs is Halo.
