Rinko Kawauchi - Cui Cui

2005, FOIL, Tokyo, Second edition

The memories of people beloved and protected by adults around them as they grew up, it won’t fade away. The works in “Cui Cui” are memories of Rinko’s family which she has been shooting for 13 years. There are scenes of, family gathering in New Year’s Holidays, wedding of older brother, grandfather’s death, birth of a new life, and so on. Ordinaries of life pile up in the normal family. The photographs evoke the scenery of hometown with smell of people and earth. Repeating the encounter and separation, the family will keep alive in one’s memory. It could be your family album, which will stir a memory of days gone by. - Courtesy of Rinko Kawauchi

Born in 1972, Rinko Kawauchi is one of the most prominent photographers in contemporary Japan. She loves to capture the details of daily life that often escape us : through her gaze, ordinary objects and situations acquire a singularity that brings out their beauty, poetry, and emotion. In her books and exhibitions she groups her images so as to reveal unexpected meetings of forms, moods, and atmospheres, creating subtle tales that encourage meditation on the marvelous infinity of the world and finiteness of all beings. - Courtesy of Foundation Cartier