Kimiko Yoshida
© Kimiko Yoshida, Self-portrait, 2010
About
WDWGN! is a programme of online exhibitions at VASA Project that has been led by Rui Goncalves Cepeda since 2013. This programme of exhibitions is build around the subject and authority of “geography” as a battleground between distinctive contemporary ideologies and contested conceptual territories.
Evolving around those two key conditions, the series of online photography exhibitions associate the physical and mental states of the body and of the being; it addresses the contested territories of contemporary photography in a digital-democratising age and its limitations in terms of narrative capacity, as well as the energy essential for the long journey, as being a “journey of phases in which the thought we are immersed in is invalidate” (borrowing from Prof. Irit Rogoff thoughts expressed in her essay What is a Theorist?, from 2006).
The programme has started in October 2013 and has engaged since then with visual narratives and stories brought by photographers from different cultural sides of the world, while sharing a dialogue that can be contextualised and speaks to a global audience.
In a first moment, Rui has explored and inquired into the dynamics of loss, of giving up, of moving away, and of being without, as was expressed in the essay What is a Theorist?, through the works of photographers such as Delio Jasse, Carlos Palma, Jane and Louise Wilson, and Adam Chodzko. On a second moment, he has focused his attention on the bodily and mental states springing from the ideas of convergences, anxiety, destruction, deceleration, deficit and chance, while looking into the works of Larson & Shindelman, Cristina Lucas, Marisa J. Futernick, and Rosangela Rennó. For a third moment, he has engaged with ideas surrounding the body, like freedom, choice, repetition, or disappearance, though the works of Nadine Fraczkowski, and Kimiko Yoshida.
From the exhibition: Pictures Caption (from Left to Right, Top to Bottom)
01 Kimiko Yoshida, Writing (Silence by Yves Klein). Self-portrait, 2010
02 Kimiko Yoshida, Writing (Essaouira Henna). Self-portrait, 2009
03 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Condottiere Micheletto Attendolo da Cotignola at the Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello). Self-portrait, 2010
04 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Doge Leonardo Loredan by Giovanni Bellini). Self-portrait, 2010
05 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael). Self-portrait, 2010
06 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Judith by Cranach The Elder). Self-portrait, 2010
07 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Mother Angélique Arnauld by Philippe de Champaigne). Self-portrait, 2010
08 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Saint Francis Kneeling by Zurbaran). Self-portrait, 2010
09 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Doña Isabel Cobos de Porcel by Goya). Self-portrait, 2010
10 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Goddess of War Athena by Klimt). Self-portrait, 2010
11 Kimiko Yoshida, The Green Tea Bride. Self-portrait, 2006
12 Kimiko Yoshida, The Red Akamba Bride with Kikuyu Earings, Kenya. Self-portrait, 2005
13 Kimiko Yoshida, The Blue Kenya Bride with Luo and Turkana Ornaments. Self-portrait, 2005
14 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Rembrandt by Himself). Self-portrait, 2007-2009
15 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Laughing Girl by Vermeer). Self-portrait, 2007-2009
16 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Pierrot by Watteau). Self-portrait, 2007-2009
17 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Pulcinella by Tiepolo). Self-portrait, 2007-2009
18 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Self-portrait of Matisse as a Moroccan). Self-portrait, 2007-2010
19 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Torero by Picasso). Self-portrait, 2007-2009
20 Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Minotaur by Picasso). Self-portrait, 2007-2009
On VASA Exhibitions:
VASA Exhibitions over the years have provided a platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now!” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko.
VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural. The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural. As an online international project. VASA works to engage various digital tools. Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard. Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author) because we can.
VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.
VASA Exhibitions includes video and video series, and sound works.