Vanessa Franklin’s “Bleu” and Yuko Miyakoshi’s “Lacy”

Imura Art Gallery

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Imura Art Gallery kyoto is pleased to present Vanessa Franklin’s “Bleu”(1F) and Hiroko Miyakoshi “Lacy” (2F) in the first joint exhibition of these two artists. French photographer Vanessa Franklin twists the stereotypes of fashion and commercial photography in order to transcend them, using a blue plastic sheet as a fashion item. Celebrating the beauty of life while also showing its fragility, her works are imbued with a natural and restrained elegance, and are both calming and alluring. Going beyond the numerous cliches associated with Japan, Franklin attempts to grasp the souls of the people who live in this beautiful country.

For “Lacy,” Hiroko Miyakoshi has created imitations of lace-surrounded objects using confectionery icing, and has taken fixed-point photographs of their dissolution, selecting the most beautiful photograph of each object out of some shots 100 each. Miyakoshi is interested in the idea of “eternal beauty.” By capturing on film the delicacy, frailty, and ephemerality of beauty in sugar art, she expresses a kind of permanency.

This exhibition is part of KG+, a series of events related to Kyotographie.

[Image: Vanessa Franklin “Risa” (2013)]