© SHIGA Lieko
don't look back, from the series RASEN KAIGAN
| Artist | SHIGA Lieko |
|---|---|
| Year | 2011 |
| Material/ Technique | chromogenic print |
| Size/ Duration | H180 × W120 cm |
| Copyright Notice | © SHIGA Lieko |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2014 |
| Description | Born in Aichi, Japan in 1980. Lives and works in Miyagi. Shiga Lieko graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. She received the 33rd Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award in 2008 for her photographic series "CANARY" (2007), which is based on a “map” she derived from fieldwork in Japan and regions overseas, and "Lilly" (2007), a series created in London by training her camera on housing estate residents and then re-photographing the prints. Since 2008, she has resided in Miyagi, where she is recording the traces of physical engagements with the land, using the medium of photography. This is a series of ten pieces selected for this museum by the artist herself from her largest and most recent project, "Rasen Kaigan". Shiga’s style of working is to take up residence in a region and produce photographs there on the basis of fieldwork. In doing this project, she relocated her residence to Miyagi in Tohoku in 2008 and took photographs while building relations of trust with local residents. Pursuing the project through several years, she completed it following The Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Shiga continually explores the question “What is the nature of photography?” within her own physical intuitions and relationships with others. Her photographs of “familiar” scenery, people’s doings, and nature’s manifestations bring unfathomable forces and emotions, and new meaning, to the surface. In this photographic series, Shiga’s art has reached achieved a point of culmination. |
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