Exhibition open April 19 - May 28

Vernissage April 22 at 7.30 pm
Centre of Japanese Art. & Technology Manggha
26 Marii Konopnickiej St. Cracow
Tel. 012 267 27 03
www.manggha.krakow.pl

Taking pictures of naked people, Sakiko Nomura creates a story about life and time. Her outlook on nudity is far from the standard way of thinking. The chose of attractive models, young people, even children, forces us to concentrate on their internal sadness, which can not be justified by any damage, physical defects, ugliness or mediocrity of the body. The beauty of their nudity emphasizes man's helplessness towards the secret of life and time. Deprived of daily attributes- clothes or house facilities, they seem to be much lonelier in longing for something undefined, something that would enable them a real fulfilment. This is also proved by the way the models look- always straight at the camera lens but never at the other people. The artist only touches those themes, in a very subtle, not defined way. Sometimes she stresses that with the blurred shot.

This continuity of inexplicable sadness directs our attention to the mythic time that everyone has inside. The time, where no stories can be told, the time that circles - naked time, therefore the real one. The truth expressed by the artist, although full of mellow sadness, carries a sparkle of hope. Waiting is always a hope. 

Marek Janczyk, Iwona Święch

Sakiko Nomura was born in 1967 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi. Between 1986 and 1990 she was studying photography at BA Art., Kyushu Industrial University. From 1991 she has been learning from a famous photographer, a worldwide known artist - Nobuyoshi Araki. Individual exhibitions: egg gallery Tokio 1993, art. gallery Tokio 1994, gallery Hukuoka, art. space Baku Hukuoka 1995,1996, gallery Verita Tokio 1996, gallery Eve Tokio, Nadiff Tokio, gallery Verita Tokio, art. space Baku Hukuoka 1997, art. space Baku Hukuoka 1997, Taka Ishii Gallery Tokio, art. space Baku Hukuoka 1997, Dryphoto (Prato, Itary), art. spece Baku Hukuoka, La Camera Tokio 1997, Art. space Baku Tokio 1997, Art. space Baku Tokio, (Cosmos) Taka Ishii GalleryTokio, seamall Yamaguchi 1997, Art. space Baku Hukuoka, Gallery Naruyama Tokio 1997. Collective exhibitions: (the Desier & The Void) Kunsthalle Wien, Arken Museum fur Moderne Kunst Copenhagen, Kunsthalle zu Kiel 1997, (Tama Vivant) 1997, (Attack, Holland Festival), Arti e amictiae, Amsterdam, (Tokyo Shock), Galerie Edition Objektiv, Koln 1999, (New Wave), (From a Distance..), Galerie Almine Rech, Paris 2000,The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Kunsthalle Kiel 2001, Museum of Modern Art. Bolzano, Rupertium Salzburg Austria 2001, (Keep in touch) Kunsthaus-space4, Graz Austria 2003.