YUKIMI KIKUCHI / キクチユキミ
PROFILE
YUKIMI KIKUCHI
The Japanese pottery artist.
Born in Nagasaki in 1988.
From my childhood I grew up surrounded by many paintings and movies.
I was interested in the world of light and shadow, and from when I was a teenager,
I was involved in video work with responsibility for lighting.
After that, my interest shifted to the momentary world and I turned to photography.
I became strongly attracted to press photography and worked on my photography, but it took time for me to find my own form of expression, so I explored that for a while traveling for a few years.
In an unexpected turn of events, I happened upon pottery, and from that day,
I has never touched a camera only clay.
I was supposed to be looking for my own form of expression, but without realizing it
I made many objects, and I felt freer and freer.
The thing to be expressed is mainly the “face”, and that became today’s “Potter’s Mask” (or I so-called Toujinmen.)
I held a “Toujinmen” exhibition at Kurakuen galere6c in Nishinomiya in 2017.
At the time of the exhibition, I took the opportunity to shoot Toujinmen with models, and launched my current projects.（OMEN‐PROJECT）
キクチ ユキミ
菊地幸未 1988年長崎生まれ
幼少時代から絵や映画をたくさん見て育つ。
光と影の世界に興味があり、10代の頃から映像作品に携わりその照明部を担う。
その後、一瞬の世界へと興味が移り写真へ転向。
報道写真に強く心惹かれて作品づくりに取り組むが、なかなか自分の表現方法を見つけることに時間がかかり、
数年旅をしながら模索する。
ふとしたきっかけで陶芸に出会い、その日からカメラではなく土ばかりさわるようになる。
表現方法を模索していたはずが、気がつけばたくさんのオブジェを作ることになり、
どんどんと自由な気持ちになっていく。
表現するものは主に「顔」を主体とした作品であり、それが今の「陶人面」となる。
2017年西宮の苦楽園galere6cにて「陶人面」展を行う。その展覧会の際にモデルによる陶人面の撮影をしたのが
きっかけで、現在の「OMEN-古来陶面新民族‐」ブロジェクトが立ち上がる。