Michiko kon biography graphic organizer

MICHEL SOSKINE INC. is pleased to present from June 22 until July 29, 2017, the second exhibition in Madrid of Japanese Photographer Michiko Kon (1955), during PhotoEspaña. The exhibition will show 34 of her recent black and white photographs.

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. 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.

In many of her photographs there are numerous elements which were once “alive”. These things are not in fact actually alive, but they are