YOKO IKEDA
COUNTERPOINT
Published by The (M) éditions and Ibasho, 2022
Book size 24x15cm
336 pages
Hardcover
Language English
Limited and numbered edition of 500
Yoko Ikeda has an extraordinary ability to see beauty in seemingly banal objects and elevate them to the status of precious subjects. Ikeda plays with the shadows, colors, lines and textures she encounters as she moves about and observes everyday life.
Using her camera, she creates her own way of seeing and showing an outside world that we don't necessarily see at first glance. In Ikeda's compositions, there is often no point of reference. Space is flattened and abstracted, place is ambiguous. She experiments with unusual points of view and focus. Ikeda seeks contrasts of form and light, and uses unexpected framing.
The book pays homage to this abundant work with a sequence of multiple associations that could be described as musical, giving the book its title “Counterpoint”.
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Yoko Ikeda has the extraordinary ability to see beauty in seemingly mundane objects and elevate them to the status of precious subjects. Ikeda plays with the shadows, colors, lines and textures she encounters as she moves and observes daily life.
With her camera, she creates her own way of seeing and showing an external world that one does not necessarily see at first glance. In Ikeda's compositions, there is often no point of reference. The space is flattened and abstract, the place is ambiguous. She experiments with unusual points of view and focuses. Ikeda seeks contrasts of form and light and uses unexpected framing.
The book pays homage to this abundant work through a sequence of multiple games of associations that could be described as musical, thus giving the book its title “Counterpoint”.