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"Ishiuchi's work is included in many important museum collections in Japan and America, but it was with 'Mother's' that she was chosen to represent Japan at the 2005 Venice Biennale. She began to photograph her mother systematically and intimately in the last years of her life until 2000, when she died suddenly. Although their relationship had been strained, Ishiuchi was deeply affected. She proceeded to document her mother's possessions in order to come to terms with her death, and in an attempt to understand the bond between them.â€After her husband was reported missing in World War II, Ishiuchi's mother had earned her living as a truck driver. When she became pregnant by another man, her first husband suddenly reappeared. Divorce followed a week before Ishiuchi was born.â€The objects documented tell the story of a fashionable and resilient woman; elegant close-ups of intimate personal effects- make up, hairbrushes and underwear that still bear the evidence of recent use, showing a life that was painful but not without beauty." (Michael Hoppen Gallery)
"Ishiuchi's work is included in many important museum collections in Japan and America, but it was with 'Mother's' that she was chosen to represent Japan at the 2005 Venice Biennale. She began to photograph her mother systematically and intimately in the last years of her life until 2000, when she died suddenly. Although their relationship had been strained, Ishiuchi was deeply affected. She proceeded to document her mother's possessions in order to come to terms with her death, and in an attempt to understand the bond between them.â€After her husband was reported missing in World War II, Ishiuchi's mother had earned her living as a truck driver. When she became pregnant by another man, her first husband suddenly reappeared. Divorce followed a week before Ishiuchi was born.â€The objects documented tell the story of a fashionable and resilient woman; elegant close-ups of intimate personal effects- make up, hairbrushes and underwear that still bear the evidence of recent use, showing a life that was painful but not without beauty." (Michael Hoppen Gallery)