Rinko Kawauchi "Untitled" 2009, c-rpint

Rinko Kawauchi, "Condensation"
The solo show of the celebrated Japanese artist consists of old and new work that has collected like dewdrops on a leaf. Each, subject to natural providence, suggests daily, subtle movement and change. Rinko Kawauchi's images evoke the melancholy aspect of her medium: photographs bear but fragmented witness to scenes passed. Rinko Kawauchi's prints highlight delicate quotidian moments, rendered in soft, emotive colors. Sometimes focused on the figure, sometimes on an environment, her photographs share a pervasive sense of loss, of birth and death. Yet her work is hardly static in tone: her body of images conveys a wisdom of cyclical experiences. Hence a nighttime photograph of playground swings, caught in movement due to the recent departure of people, who will eventually return, or due to the force of the wind, or perhaps due to the apparitions presently seated on them.

Exhibition Info
Date: Oct 19- Nov 28, 2009
Place:Mountain Fold Gallery
Address: 55 Fifth Ave., 18th floor, New York NY, 10003