Publisher: DISTANZ.
Softcover, 22 x 32 cm, 120 pages, English
Along with exploring the synthesis of Western and Asian cultures, and confronting what it means to be a foreigner, Ikemura's works are frequently concerned with the female figure, particularly during the transition to adolescence. She paints in watercolors, depicting these ambiguous identities and intermediate stages in portraits that show shadowy faces—sometimes a woman or a child, but also male faces in pastel tones, which dissolve toward the edge of the work.
The publication Portraits comprises a sequence of more than sixty works from the eponymous series of watercolors, here shown for the first time. With texts by Nils Emmerichs and Bera Nordal.
