An Immersion in Hiromi Kakimoto’s Little World

The photographs compiled in the book Little World by Hiromi Kakimoto address memory and images that leave a mark on us, on the border between the real and the imaginary.

The artist, born in 1976, explains in the introduction to Little World that she tried, ‘through this process, to reflect how dreams turn private moments into universal images.’

Photographs between poetry and surrealism

Based on mental images, dreams, and visual creations, the artist creates poetic photographs that often depict objects floating in the air, flying, like balloons in a kitchen and butterflies, playing with colour combinations. Other, more surreal pieces show pine cones hovering in mid-air, or a hat suspended above some flowers.

The series of photographs is accompanied by a poem by Sophie Cavaliero, a close friend of the artist, entitled Ishikeri, a Photographic Hopscotch and an extract of which appears here:

My two feet on the ground, I observe Hiromi’s photographs.
I toss a pebble in square 1
1, for a paper plane in search of a cloud
Then, I hop on squares 2 and 3
2, for two whirling dresses under wisteria…

The rest of this extract can be found on Le Pont Rouge’s website.

The Little World project follows Crossing Views: Switzerland Seen through Japanese Eyes (2014), created as part of the cmarts residence association (Switzerland), on which Hiromi Kakimoto collaborated with Tomoki Imai, Nao Tsuda, Mami Kosemura, and Takayoshi Tsuchiya.

Little World (2016), a series by Hiromi Kakimoto, is published by Le Pont Rouge.