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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Heisei period 1989 - → Japan
- Date
- 1995
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Edition
- 11/75
- Dimensions
- 51.1 x 40.8 cm image; 60.6 x 50.6 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. verso, pencil "Michiko Kon". Dated l.l. verso, pencil "1995".
- Credit
- Purchased 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 206.1995
- Copyright
- © KON Michiko
- Artist information
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Michiko Kon
Works in the collection
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About
Through her work Kon plays with the nature of life and death, animate and inanimate, and it is this liminal aspect which evokes both fascination and disgust when we look at these photographs. There is also an element to the work which could be described as fey (we notice that the boot composed of shrimp [Acc.no. 205.1995] has roses around its top and one shrimp has fallen off, or not quite made it onto its elegant host). The slip hanging from the cheap wire coathanger is composed of plants, which resemble tiny limbs and feet. This animation of the undergarment invites feelings which are not appropriate to such an intimate article of clothing.
Michiko Kon was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture. She graduated from Sokei Art School in 1978 and then studied photography at the Tokyo Photographic College until 1980. In 1991 she was the recipient of the KIMURA Ihee Photography Award.
Excerpt from The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.293.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
The Enigmatic Object, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Apr 1997–22 Jun 1997
In one drop of water, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Jun 2019–21 Feb 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Judy Annear, The Enigmatic Object, Sydney, 1997.
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Photography', Sydney, 2003, 293 (illus.).
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Jane Somerville, Look, 'The familiar made strange', Sydney, May 2007, 20 (illus.).
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