The artist Mika Ninagawa expresses her mood with a series of provoking shots.

Identikit | The limitless art of Mika Ninagawa

NEW-NOIR, a collection by Mika Ninagawa.The art of Mika Ninagawa is dynamic, animated by saturated colors and sakura flowers. She is a Japanese photographer who lives art at 360°. Apart from photography, she also likes to stay active in the cinematographic field. Born in ’72 and originally from Tokyo, she inherited the love for art and its forms from her parents. His father Yukio was a well-known theater director and his mother Tomoko a famous actress. Mika lives in symbiosis with art and handles all its nuances. From painting to acting, graphics, and photography – her greatest passion, which has guided her since she was 10. In fact, in an interview with Yuka Yamaji, another noted artist, she said that her first pictures are homemade self-portraits in front of the mirror and caricatures of her favorite Barbie dolls. Mika Ninagawa sees photography as a tool to steal fleeting moments of emotions and expressions. According to the artist, the magic behind this device consists of producing images without imperfections.

Mika’s debut years

A portrait from Mika Ninagawa collection, 2010.Defying all Japanese taboos, she was the first female photographer in her country. In the wake of the third wave of feminist movements of the 1990s, Ninagawa has become an icon of the Japanese Girly Photo movement. A trend that pushed millions of Japanese girls to document every single moment of their sparkly pink routine with a Big Mini Camera. The photographer thus decided to use the enormous visibility potential of the girly universe to launch herself on the international art scene. Additionally, Mika revealed that the most rewarding moment of her life was receiving the 26th Kimura Ihei Award, which she won alongside Yurie Nagashima and Hiromix. The first and only time that such a prestigious national award for the artistic career was given to three photographers at the same time.

Hearthly flowers, heavenly colors

The vitality of fresh flowers explodes in Mika Ninagawa esibition in Taipei, 2016.This is the name of the first and brilliant series of art installations self-produced by Mika Ninagawa, far from the mundane exhibitions. The idea behind the project is a simple yet complicated change of perspective. In Ninagawa‘s eyes, during a shooting, the objects blend with her, and does she. Nothing is confined by the lines of reality anymore, everything can be everything. And so buses, rooms, and facades become a space beyond three dimensions. The symbolism linked to the sakura, the cherry blossom symbol of Japan, is the signature that distinguishes Mika‘s style. It seems to be a source of spiritual elevation for the artist. We find it in the photographic exhibition at the TeamLab Borderless in Tokyo, in 2018. To celebrate the one million visitors in just five months from its opening, the multimedia museum exhibited 21 artworks by Mika Ninagawa.

Links

Mika Ninagawa official site. Yuka Yamaji interviews Mika Ninagawa. Self-Image, 2013; New Noir2, 2017; Mika Ninagawa Collection 2010.

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