Kimiko Yoshida has spent the last five years concentrating on a series of ‘intangible self-portraits’ which can be read as a quest for the hybridization of cultures, for the transformation of the being, and perhaps even as a deletion of identities.
Born in Japan, Yoshida moved to France in 1995 where she adopted a new language and way of life. She studied photography at the Ecole Nationale at Arles, later she went to Le Fresnoy-Studio des arts contemporains at Tourcoing.
The metamorphosis of her own identity into a multiplicity of identifications expresses the fading of uniqueness, the ‘desconstruction’ of the ‘self’.
Subtle, fictional, paradoxical, Yoshida's Bachelor Brides form an ensemble of quasi-monochromatic self-portraits, fragments of an intimate web, elaborating on a singular story: the feminine condition in Japan.
Her images are large format (120x120cm), luminous squares, underlining her fantasy-bio epic.
Kimiko Yoshida
