Subtle, fictional, paradoxical, Kimiko Yoshida's Bachelor Brides form an ensemble of quasi-monochromatic self-portraits, fragments of an intimate web, elaborating on a singular story: the feminine condition in Japan. Her images are large format (120x120cm), luminous squares, underlining her fantasy-bio epic. While still very young, Kimiko Yoshida was struck by the story of her own mother, who met her husband for the fjrst time on her wedding day. Kimiko Yoshida's own story is compelling. Born in Japan, she lefted to France in 1995, where she adopted a new language, a new way to live, to create. She studied photography at the Ecole Nationale at Arles, later she went to Le Fresnoy-Studio des arts contemporains at Tourcoing. For five years now Kimiko Yoshida has been concentrating on this series of "intangible self-portraits" which can be read as a quest for the hybridization of cultures, for the transformation of the being, and perhaps even as a deletion of identities. The metamorphosis of her own identity into a multiplicity of identifications expresses the fading of uniqueness, the "desconstruction" of the 'self'. Recent exhibitions: 2006-2007 Centro de Art Moderna, Casa Das Mudas, Madeira, Portugal 'Tudo o que nao seja eu'; Galerie Albert Benamou et Galeria D'Arte Venezia, Italy; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, Arizona, USA 'Art Is an Idea : the Moquay Collection' ; Fukuoka, Japan 'Essences Insensées' ; RUARTS Gallery, Moscow, Russia 'Marry Me ! Self-portraits.

À travers les photographies, vidéos et installations de Kimiko Yoshida se profile la quête de soi dans une traversée des apparences et des artifices. La suite d'une délicate narration intitulée Marry Me!, où elle se représente à plusieurs reprises en mariée intangible et célibataire, travestissements qui, entre apparition et disparition, donnent une image de l'artiste tout à la fois vulnérable et inaccessible. L'univers de Kimiko Yoshida arbore de multiples facettes et, dans le rayonnement de ses trésors, la question de l'identité se profile. Ses photographies, de grand format (120x120cm), sont des surfaces monochromes laissant apparaître ou disparaître son visage, déguisé et maquillé. Née à Tokyo en 1963, vit et travaille actuellement à Paris. Récentes expositions : 2006-2007- Centro de Art Moderna, Casa Das Mudas, Madeira, Portugal 'Tudo o que não seja eu' ; Galerie Albert Benamou at Galeria D'Arte Venezia, Italy ; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, Arizona, USA 'Art Is an Idea : the Moquay Collection' ; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 'Essences Insensées' ; RUARTS Gallery, Moscow, Russia 'Marry Me ! Self-portraits'.