Michiko kon biography channel

, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Michiko Kon creates assemblages with a minimalist background, and where biological elements such as sea creatures, plants and insects are in tension between an animate and inanimate reality.  Her work is a parade of living creatures turned into inanimate objects, and inanimate objects turned into living creatures.

Michiko kon biography channel

Kon creates surreal still life scenographies, with seductively mundane objects, such as raw sea elements, vegetables and textile in order to get images of impossible pieces.

Kon uses photography as her means of expression because it fixes this process of transformation.

In many of her photographs there are numerous elements which were once “alive”. These things are not in fact actually alive, but they are not complete corpses (inanimate matter),  either they hang in mid-air in the ambiguous region between life and death.

While in the process of dying, they still had