Michiko kon biography of abraham

Michiko Kon creates assemblages with a minimalist background, and where biological elements such as sea creatures, plants and insects are in tension between an animate and inanimate reality. Her work is a parade of living creatures turned into inanimate objects, and inanimate objects turned into living creatures.

She is a Japanese photographer who creates evocative monochromatic works that are comprised of a variety of objects that both are challenging and entrancing to the viewer.

Kon creates surreal still life scenographies, with seductively mundane objects, such as raw sea elements, vegetables and textile in order to get images of impossible pieces. Kon uses photography as her means of expression because it fixes this process of transformation. These things are not in fact actually alive, but they are not complete corpses inanimate matter , either they hang in mid-air in the ambiguous region between life and death.

While in the process of dying, they still had the fresh warmth of life: is there truly a differentiation between life and death?. Perhaps our feeling that we must divide these two regions is nothing but a way of making it easier to live in our society. My head still follows the story, but my arms yield to the weight of the book and fall on the sheet, yet my brain keeps following the story.

At last, my fingers can no longer hold the book and let it go. The book falls to the floor. As I hear the sound of the falling book, I fall asleep while conscious that I have lost control of my body.

Michiko Kon was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture in She graduated in from the Department of Printmaking at Sokei Academy of Design and Fine Art, and studied at Missing: abraham.

I feel comfortable. In each work Kon creates a tension between the real and the imagined, subtly manipulating the perceptions of her viewers. No one can stop this movement and the discharge of energy that accompanies it. The vegetal nature gets varnished in strange animal textures in a visual game where the hardness and the lightness come together, and also humor, cruelty, iconic history and contemporary pop culture.

She uses an extremely complex technique almost forgotten in XXI century photography.