FLOWERS BLOOM, BUTTERFLIES COME

Miho Kajioka
FLOWERS BLOOM, BUTTERFLIES COME

Photographs: Miho Kajioka

Publisher: Iikki books

96 pages

Pictures: 93

Year: 2021

Comments: Hardcover, 24 x 22 cm. Limited edition of 750 copies, hand numbered & hand stamped.

Miho Kajioka (b. 1973, Japan, lives in Kyoto) is an artist and a photographer since 2011.
« Kajioka's artistic practice is in principal snapshot based; she carries her camera everywhere and intuitively takes photos of whatever she finds interesting. These collected images serve as the basic material for her work in the darkroom where she creates her poetic and suggestive image-objects through elaborate, alternative printing methods. Kajioka regards herself more as a painter/drawer than as a photographer. She feels that photographic techniques help her to create works that fully express her artistic vision. Her images evoke a sense of mystery in her constant search for beauty. The focused, creative and respectful way in which she uses the medium of photography to creating her works seems to fit in the tradition of Japanese art that is characterized by the specifically Japanese sense of beauty, wabi sabi. (…) According to her, photography captures moments and freezes them; printing impressions is like playing with the sense of time and getting lost in its timeline. » (Ibasho Gallery)
Kajioka’s work has been exhibited in Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Kajioka’s latest book ‘so it goes’ won Prix Nadar in October 2019.