For Yoshika Hirata Oen, an intensive self-questioning about her own identity is the motivation for a photographic dialogue with her changing living spaces in different cultures. The sequence of images in her photo book HAPTICS follows a contemplative dramaturgy that sensitizes the viewer to a visual minimalism in which a magical light seems to cut out what is depicted of real life. The photographs do not lose themselves in pure aestheticism, but rather develop a narration in the sequence with changing moods that raises fundamental questions about what ultimately binds us all to the real world. (Wolfgang Zurborn)
The publication "Haptics" by Yoshika Hirata Oen was edited in the frame of workshops with Wolfgang Zurborn at Lichtblick School Cologne.
