Takako Kido – Taiyo at 9

Description

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Presented by: IBASHO Gallery

Listen to the audio description of this artwork:

My son, Taiyo was 9 when I made this image.
He grew up drinking lots of breast milk and has called me ‘Mama-Chichi’. ‘Chichi’ means both breast and breastmilk in the Japanese language. For him, ‘Mama’ and ‘Chichi’ means just the same thing, he says.
‘Mama-Chichi’, which used to be a nutritional supply station for his body, has now become one for his heart. Even when he has a bad day at school, he spends some time with ‘Mama-Chichi’ for skinship and runs outside again with full of energy.

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Takako Kido (Japanese, b. 1970) received a B.A. in Economics from Soka University (Japan) in 1993 and graduated from ICP full-time program in 2003. She is currently based in Kochi in Japan. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both in Japan and internationally, including Sprengel Museum Hannover (Germany), Candela Gallery (Virginia US), Foley Gallery (New York), Griffin Museum of Photography (Massachusetts US), Sendai City Museum (Japan), and elsewhere. Kido was one of Photolucida Critical Mass 2021 Top 50 and a recipient of 2022 Women Photograph Grant, LensCulture Summer Open 2022 Award, 3rd place for VONOVIA Award fur Fotografie 2022, 2023 Daylight Photo Awards. She was a Finalist for the 2023 Arnold Newman Prize. Her work also has been featured in De Morgen, Kochi Newspaper, NHK World – JAPAN, Musee Magazine, CLAN Magazine, Milk Art Journal vol.2, Art and Asia, and more. Her first photobook The Unseen was published by Formare la luce in 2021.

Website: https://www.takakokido.com

IBASHO Gallery

IBASHO means ‘a place where you can be yourself’ in Japanese. IBASHO is a gallery in Antwerp that opened her doors in March 2015, showing fine art Japanese photography ranging from works by well-known Japanese photographers to younger contemporary Japanese artists as well as works from Western photographers who were inspired by Japan. IBASHO hopes to show the versatility and beauty of Japanese photography in its many guises, from the raw and unpolished to the minimalist and still. As photo books are an important medium for presenting photography in Japan, IBASHO also deals in new and antiquarian Japanese photo books. IBASHO also publishes its own photo books together with Paris-based publisher the(M) éditions. Recently, IBASHO is also presenting Japanese ceramics.

IBASHO is a member of Antwerp Art – https://antwerpart.be, and AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) – https://www.aipad.com.

Website: https://ibashogallery.com/