M/E | Rinko Kawauchi | Delpire & co 2025
This book is brand new!
The imperfect copy has a dent (please see the photos).
"Rinko Kawauchi named her book M/E after Mother/Earth, but kept only the initials (me in English) to emphasize the connection she maintains with Mother Earth. She casts her singular, gentle gaze on the living world to capture its fragile beauty: that of a dewdrop on a leaf or the gigantic face of a glacier, before which levitates the white halo of a cloud of vapor caused by the collapse of the ice into the sea. The artist's approach is highly intuitive; her images are not constructed; they "arrive." The result: almost meditative images, as if from a dream. They can be poetic, mysterious, even bizarre. Moreover, they are not perfectly clear. Rinko Kawauchi seeks the ephemeral; she captures that fleeting moment before the eye's accommodation.
The artist captures her immediate environment and her family as well as more spectacular subjects. In this book, she offers a dialogue between images of Iceland and Japan, mainly around water: clouds, rain, rainbows, ice, snow, torrents, mist... The work is constructed by playing with the idea of transparency that is dear to her. The images are printed on very fine Japanese paper and are revealed gradually. Blank pages, like silences, punctuate the sequences. The cover, for its part, is splashed with silver shards that reflect the light." - From publisher's website