September 22, 2017

Ishiuchi Miyako: Grain and Image
Venue:

Yokohama Museum of Art

Dates:

December 9 (Sat. ), 2017 - March 4 (Sun.), 2018

The Yokohama Museum of Art is proud to present Ishiuchi
Miyako: Grain and Image from Saturday, December 9, 2017 to Sunday
March 4, 2018.
Ishiuchi Miyako (born in 1947) is currently one of the mosthighly acclaimed photographers in the world. Her many honors include
being the first Asian woman to receive the Hasselblad Foundation
International Award in Photography in 2014.
After studying weaving at Tama Art University, Ishiuchi began
taking photographs on her own. She was quickly recognized for hercoarse-grained, monochrome pictures of Yokosuka, the city where Ishiuchi
spent her adolescence, and former red-light districts in various parts ofJapan. In recent years, the artist’s work ひろしま /hiroshima, which deals withclothing used by victims of the atomic bomb, and a series depicting thepersonal effects of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo have led to evengreater renown.
Twenty-seventeen is the 40th anniversary of Ishiuchi’s

ひろしま /hiroshima #112 Donor: Omoto,T.

2016©Ishiuchi Miyako

solo exhibition Yokosuka Story, which in effect marked her debut asa photographer. Slated for this landmark year, this exhibition focuses
on “grain,” one of Ishiuchi’s keywords, and consists of approximately
200 items from her early years to never-before-shown works.
Through these photographs of abandoned buildings, scars,
silk kimono beloved by women of the Taisho and Showa era who played
an important role in the modernization of Japan, and personal articles
that belonged to the artist’s mother and atomic-bomb victims, theexhibition presents Ishiuchi Miyako’s world, in which she has consistently
addressed themes such as existence and absence, people’s memories,and vestiges of time.

Kanazawa Hakkei
1975-76©Ishiuchi Miyako

The forty years since I set up my darkroom in Yokohama have passed quickly.
The photographs born there are now vintage prints, the particles of their grain conspicuous
after digesting their fill of air and time. My images, launched in Yokosuka, convey theirindividual spirits to merge history, the human body and things left behind and set off into
the future.
Ishiuchi Miyako

Ishiuchi Miyako
Born in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture. Ishiuchi had a solo exhibition
titled Time Textured in Monochrome at The National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo in 1999. In 2005, she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale with
Mother's 2000-2005: Traces of the Future, for which she photographed hermother’s belongings. In 2008, Ishiuchi released the series ひろしま /hiroshima
for which she took pictures of belongings left behind by victims of the atomic
bomb, which were shown in her solo exhibition at Hiroshima City Museum ofContemporary Art, as well as published as a book. She photographed kimonosof the type known as Meisen, and in 2012 this series, Silken Dreams, wasfeatured in her solo exhibition held at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma
Museum of Contemporary Art. Ishiuchi also traveled to Mexico to photograph©Maki Ishii

Frida Kahlo’s belongings kept at the Frida Kahlo Museum. In 2013, herYokosuka Story was shown at the Tate Modern in a collection exhibition. In 2014 Ishiuchi had a solo
exhibition as her Hasselblad Award show at the Hasselblad Center, and in 2015 she held a solo exhibition
titled Postwar Shadows at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, featuring works ranging from her firstseries Yokosuka Story to her latest one ひろしま /hiroshima. In 2016 she held a solo exhibition titled Frida is at
Shiseido Gallery in Tokyo. Her book of photographs Shashin kankei (About Photography) was published by
Chikuma Shobo.

Sections
横浜／Yokohama

Left:
Endless Night #90
1978-80©Ishiuchi Miyako

Right:
Bayside Courts#67
1988-89©Ishiuchi Miyako

Yokohama Goraku-So Apartment
1987©Ishiuchi Miyako

絹／Silk

無垢／Innocence
Left:
Silken Dreams#72 raw silk
Annaka2011©Ishiuchi MiyakoSilken Dreams #50
heiyo-kasuri-meisen, Kiryu,2011, Collection of Arts Maebashi©Ishiuchi Miyako

Right:
Shiranui noYubi #1
2014©Ishiuchi Miyako

遺されたもの／Belongings
Left:
ひろしま /hiroshima #106

Donor: Hashimoto, H.
2016©Ishiuchi Miyako
Middle:Mother’s #35
2002©Ishiuchi Miyako
Right:
Frida by Ishiuchi #107
2012
©Ishiuchi Miyako

Admission
Adults¥1,500 ( 1,300/ 1,400)

University and high school students¥ 900 (700/800)

Junior high school students¥ 600 (400/500)

Children under 12

FreeSeniors (65 and Older)¥1,400 *ID required. Only available at ticket counter in the museum.

*(/)＝Advance / Group of 20 or more.
*For a group of 20 or more, reservation is required in advance.
*Advance tickets are available from October 9 (Mon.) until December 8 (Fri.), 2017 at the Museum Shop and through Seven-Eleventicket or eplus ticket.
*Visitors with disability and one person accompanying them are admitted free of charge.
(Please present certificate at the entrance.)*The ticket also gives admission to the Exhibition of the Museum Collection for the same day.

General Information
Title:

Ishiuchi Miyako: Grain and ImageDates:

December 9 (Sat.), 2017 - March 4 (Sun.), 2018

Open hours:

10:00-18:00*Open until 16:00 on March 1 (Thu.), 2018
*Open until 20:30 on March 3 (Sat.), 2018
*Admission until 30 minutes before closing.

Closed:Thursdays (except March 1, 2018), December 28, 2017ー January 4, 2018.

Venue:

Yokohama Museum of Art
3-4-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama 220-0012
TEL: +81(0)45 221 0300 FAX: +81(0)45 221 0317
URL: http://yokohama.art.museum/eng

Organized by:
Grant from:
Production Grant from:
Sponsored by:
In Cooperation with:

Yokohama Museum of Art [Yokohama Arts Foundation]
Japan Arts Fund
Terumo Foundation for Life Sciences and Arts
NIKON CORPORATION, NIKON IMAGING JAPAN INC.,
Shiseido Co., Ltd.
The Third Gallery Aya, Minatomirai Line, Yokohama Cable Vision Inc.,
Yokohama FM Broadcasting Co., Ltd., Metropolitan Expressway Co., Ltd.
CHOCOLATE DESIGN CO., Ltd.

Contact
Ms. Fujii, Ms. Kaito, Mr. Yamazaki
Public Relations, Yokohama Museum of Art
3-4-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama. 220-0012 JAPAN
TEL:+81(0)45 221 0319

FAX:+81(0)45 221 0317

E-mail: pr-yma@yaf.or.jp