Rinko Kawauchi: At the Edge of the Everyday World Exhibition Catalogue

Published alongside the exhibition Rinko Kawauchi: At the Edge of the Everyday World, part of Bristol Photo Festival 2024.

At the Edge of the Everyday World celebrates twenty years of extraordinary practice
by internationally acclaimed Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi (b.1972),
exploring the beauty found within our everyday lives.

Kawauchi’s work is intimate and tender, yet also monumental and sublime, moving
between beauty and awe, reminding us how near yet how far lie the edges of our
world. It is these edges she seeks to explore through her innate need to know the
world.

Drawing together four photographic series (Illuminance, AILA, Ametsuchi and M/E)
alongside film and examples of her pioneering photobooks, the exhibition highlights
the small, personal movements within our lives that lead to larger, universal journeys.
In this way Kawauchi’s work touches upon Bristol Photo Festival’s wider theme of
continual movement which makes ‘the world a wave’.