Illuminance

I love this woman's works. Though Illuminance took 15 years to be done, I'd certainly wait for great works like this. She collaborated art and photography brilliantly. Like Yumi Goto (TIME) said in Lightbox, she creates an imaginary space. And, ugh, I have nothing much to say about her, but her eyes must be really amazing. One last thing, Rinko Kawauchi, you need to teach me how to take pictures this amazing. I'm longing to see her next project on photography of natural disaster.

My favourite quote I like on her:

Even within the highly charged mode of Kawauchi's work, the photographs in Illuminance combine to create an intense visual experience, one of frequent crescendos, in which we sense that light has come to represent a particular kind of energy for Kawauchi, both in a personal sense, like an inspirational pulse in her life and work, and on a wider scale, as a universal force of connection and interdependence. For if light is bound up with visibility, if light gives material things their form and color, light in Kawauchi's work also acts to atomize them. In many of the photographs in Illuminance, light obscures as much as it reveals; it reflects; penetrates; dematerializes; and renders things invisible. And, in some images, light is all that is left.

David Chandler, excerpted from the essay "Weightless Light."

source: lightbox, srtbook, nowness