The eyes, the ears
Reminiscent of Japanese photography of the 1960s Rinko Kawauchi’s work is the search for the sublime amid the banal. Her photographs have frequently been lauded for their nuanced palette and offhand compositional mastery, as well as their ability to incite wonder via careful attention to tiny gestures and the incidental details of her everyday environment. Ordinary scenes such as small insects, flowers and children, compose this delicate photographic series, which in the homonymous photobook is accompanied by whispery words put together by Rinko Kawauchi herself, giving to the title of the series – which at first glance seems to refer to her attention for fragmented details of everyday life – a multiple meaning.
