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MONOGRAPHS

“Real & Imaginary” Mayumi Lake

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MONOGRAPHS Vol.1 / May 2016

CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY Noovo Editions is an independent editorial and cultural project by María del Rosario González y Santeiro and Jorge Margolles Garrote with on-line and paper editions. Noovo has a virtual space completely devoted to the universe of Fashion, Photography and Art Jewellery from a unique and exclusively contemporary perspective: a sensory luxury through its own protagonists. http://www.noovoeditions.com Copyright © 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publishers. Noovo Monographs volume 1 Mayumi Lake Photography editor Jorge Margolles Garrote Art Direction Charo González y Santeiro / Jorge Margolles Garrote Publisher Noovo Editions Noovo Monographs © 2016

Mayumi Lake

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For over the past fifteen years, my artwork has dealt with the interaction between the real and imaginary. Relying on both media references and autobiographical elements, I explore issues of memory, identity and desire. As a Japanese woman who has been culturally conditioned to conceal and contain rather than reveal, I am interested in uncovering my own identity by aggressively evoking emotional reactions from my viewer. Latent Heat is a series of images, which reflects upon my anxiety regarding “The end of all things.” The series began with the horrifying earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Followed by a heightened awareness that I was simultaneously experiencing several personal losses – including a mysterious illness of a family member, and the sudden and unexpected death of a close friend. These horrific events, unfolding through the media daily in my birthplace, and the uneasiness and apprehension associated with loss and grieving began to merge together, to synchronize. I was the vortex, the meeting space of several disconnected events that formed a personal sense of tragic ending; a belief akin to the fated sense of despair associated with end date of the Mayan calendar. I began to think, and even truly. Æther, the series of portraits of women floating in quiet darkness, was conceived when I became intrigued by the legacy of the Countess Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi (Aoyama, 1874-1941), a pioneering Japanese woman who emigrated and married into a prominent European family in the late 19th Century. Upon visiting the countess’ grave while on AIR Artist-in-Residence Krems in Austria, I was struck by an inexplicable, overwhelmingly emotional unease which inspired me to find compelling female archetypes that could be admired and feared at the same time. The series features portraits of young women and pubescent girls posed in austere Victorian dress covering their feminine curves while others play schoolgirls wearing ubiquitous Japanese uniforms. The subject’s shapes and facial expressions are mostly obscured in strategic shadow. These unconventional portraits are based on historical or culturally specific stereotypes, and all of them have one thing in common: these women and girls posses the power to inspire a sense of awe. I invite these women out of the darkness much as a medium calls forth spirits.

Mayumi Lake

Mayumi Lake is a Chicago based artist. Her work delve into childhood and pubescent dreams, phobia and desires. She employs herself and others as models, She also use dolls, toys, weapons, vintage clothes, and altered landscapes. Exhibitions/screenings Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, Asia Society, Art in General, Artists Space, New York,. MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge. Sullivan Gallery, Zhou B Center, Chicago. Midwest Museum of Contemporaty Art, Carmel. Fotograpie Forum International, Frankfurt. Cornelius Pleser Galerie, Munich. Directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lounge, Berlin. Bangkok International Art Festival, Bangkok. Galleria PaciArte, Brescia. FOTOAMERICA, Santiago. Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam. Ssamzie Spacek Soul. O Gallery, Tokyo. Publications Ex Post Facto, One Picture Book#55, Poo-Chi (monograph), Nazraeli Press. Bibliography. Photograph Magazine. Musee Magazine. The Village Voice. Artnet Magazine. Contemporary Magazine. Art Asia Pacific. European Photography. Awards Illinois Art Council Artist Fellowship Photo-Eye Award Bruce Goodman Memorial Fellowship

CONTACT INFORMATION: Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery 547 West 27th Street, #204, New York, NY 10001 +1 212 268 7132 www.miyakoyoshinaga.com miyako@miyakoyoshinaga.com

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Mayumi Lake

“Real & Imaginary”

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Latent Heat (Will-oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;-the-Wisp #4451), 2014, Pigment print, 24 x 36

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Latent Heat (Dark Sun #4340), 2014, Pigment print, 24 x 36

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Latent Heat (Hunch #4984), 2014, Pigment print, 24 x 36

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Latent Heat (Old Fashioned #40255), 2014, Pigment print, 30 x 30

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Latent Heat (Static Threads #141053), 2014, Pigment print, 26 x 30

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Latent Heat (Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alright #141199), 2014, Pigment print, 27 x 36

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Latent Heat (Layered Solitude #1537), 2014, Pigment print, 27 x 36

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Latent Heat (Swan Song #000646), 2014, Pigment print, 27 x 36

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Latent Heat (Spiral Echoes #141136), 2014, Pigment print, 27 x 36

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Latent Heat (Additive Reckoning #001349), 2014, Pigment print, 27 x 36

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Latent Heat (Fravashi #82032), 2014, Pigment print, 27 x 36

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Latent Heat (Awakening #001513), 2014, Pigment print, 16 x 20

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Ă&#x2020;ther (In Front of My Back #25055), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 30 x 20

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Ă&#x2020;ther (Foreign Body #24610), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 20 x 30

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Ă&#x2020;ther (Origin of the World #202), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 30 x 20

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Ă&#x2020;ther (Mitsuko : Oriental Flower #5357), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 30 x 20

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Ă&#x2020;ther (Mitsuko : Oriental Dragon w#5221), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 30 x 20

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Ă&#x2020;ther (Phan Thi #5328), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 20 x 30

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Ă&#x2020;ther (Atomic Dot #0954), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 20 x 30

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Ă&#x2020;ther (one-nine-four-four #3971), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 30 x 20

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Ă&#x2020;ther (Eternal Bride #24792), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 30 x 20

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Ă&#x2020;ther (Fundoshi #73), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 30 x 20

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Ă&#x2020;ther (Absolute Territory #24642), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 30 x 20

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Ă&#x2020;ther (Tremor # 5301), 2010, Lambdaflex print, 30 x 20

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