About
Artist and Photographer creating visuals for brands seeking to differentiate themselves proposing an imaginative and expressive aesthetic.
Being half Japanese-French and having studied fine art at Central St Martins in London, Parsons in New York, Beaux Arts in Paris and Tokyo, my artistic universe has been influenced by these vivid and hectic urban experiences. These cities, each in their own way, have profoundly nourished my vision and my world: urban, vibrant, intense and mixed.
Being half Japanese-French and having studied fine art at Central St Martins in London, Parsons in New York, Beaux Arts in Paris and Tokyo, my artistic universe has been influenced by these vivid and hectic urban experiences. These cities, each in their own way, have profoundly nourished my vision and my world: urban, vibrant, intense and mixed.
Cultural diversity is at the heart of my work and brings together different styles and mediums through the art of assemblage, mixing photography, painting, graffiti, drawing and collages. Through these mediums, I am particularly interested in the complexity of identity—that which is constructed between cultures, languages, bodies, and territories.
Movement, whether physical or symbolic, plays a central role in this research. It relates as much to geographical displacement as to inner transformations.
Sports practice, and in particular disciplines based on self-improvement, also nourishes my reflection. It embodies this tension between effort, endurance, freedom, and bodily control—notions that I transpose into my artistic work as metaphors for personal and collective development. Through the exploration of movement, I seek to create a dialogue between body and mind, traces and memory, in a quest for unity between the intimate and the universal.
ME MYSELF AND I - PROJECT
Myself and I was initially conceived as an autobiographical work aimed at exploring family and transgenerational memories. My father, born in 1947 in Nagasaki and a survivor of six cancers—a kind of "hibakusha"—was the starting point. Since its creation in 2019, the project has never been completed but has constantly come up in discussions about cultural mixt and the notion of identity, proving to be a much broader and more contemporary topic than I had thought.
Miscegenation, whether hereditary and/or cultural, symbolizes the encounter and hybridization between different cultures, ethnicities, or traditions, generating a genetic and sociocultural blend. This phenomenon raises profound questions of identity, both individual and collective: how can we define ourselves when we carry within us several heritages, sometimes perceived as contradictory?
By challenging traditional frameworks of belonging, cross-culturalism invites us to redefine the notions of nationality, culture, and roots. In a globalized world where identities are fragmenting and reshaping themselves, it reflects a quest for meaning, between anchoring and openness, between tradition and modernity.
While this quest for identity can generate internal tensions, it also offers an inestimable richness: that of multiple perspectives and the ability to embody a reinvented, forward-looking diversity.
MAKEAMOVE - PROJECT
Artistic philosophy and sport philosophy share a common foundation by highlighting human values such as perseverance, self-expression and personal accomplishment.
As an artist and strong sports enthusiast, my photography practice merges these two fundamental elements of my life. I am fascinated by the determination and courage of each athlete that resides within us, as we push our physical and mental limits on any competitive field whatever it may be.
I seek to freeze these moments of intense effort, transient pain and unwavering perseverance. The responsiveness in the human movement combined with the intensity of emotions that it creates, is a powerful sensation of mind and body becoming one to achieve a single goal; they become the pillars that propel us towards the accomplishment of our greatest challenges.
Contact for any enquiries
kinukamura@gmail.com