Yuki Kawamura

Yuki lost his mother after a long illness, when he and his sister were still children. For loved ones, she is now only a distant voice, a foreign face on photos, a ghost who visits them in their dreams, an increasingly blurred memory. Munemitsu, his father, has done all he could to fill this unfathomable emptiness, even forgetting. But to no avail, given that Norie is still there, like a latent and sprawling presence, entwining the invisible bonds of the family. But who really was Norie?

Running in a snow landscape. Images come and go as memory does

Larva for a long time, sublimago for a few hours and imagoto breed, not equipped to eat, this short-lived being is reminiscent of the legacy of the fireflies expressed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Referring to Philippe Jaccottet, Yuki Kawamura juxtaposes time and movement without dreading the motionless moment.

Grandmother death is an opportunity for each and everyone to reflect upon mourning, and beyond that, upon life, its multiple forms, its disappearance as well as its inexhaustible resources, and the signs of its infinite diversity. Life’s beauty is in water, mist and foam, in lichens and trees, in this grandmother’s dying face, and in her family’s care, affection and joking, in her children’s every word, every breath.

12 red balls spring from the ground into the air. They fall down, come to a stop and fade away to show the beautity of gravity's rhythm

Pieces of glass float almost weightlessly in a void. Due to high fragility they fall apart when they clash. Fragility stands for beauty which is short lasting

People arriving and departing from the airport seen through a revolving door. Modern live as it moves on in time and space

Two lovers swim in the river Lethe, the river of forgetfulness and oblivion. In Greek mythology, the river Lethe flowed through the Underworld, where all those who drank from it experiencend complete amnesia. The lovers never meet and thus drift apart. A girl dives into the river to forget an unhappy love.