Image: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum has highlighted Rinko Kawauchi’s photographic series ‘Cui Cui’ in a feature titled ‘TOP Collection: Tomorrow’s Dining Table.’ The museum’s announcement presents the work as a record of family life photographed over 13 years, beginning when Kawauchi was a student.
‘Cui Cui’ is structured as a slideshow rather than described as a conventional sequence of individual prints. According to the museum, the series brings together the family record across an extended period, allowing events to unfold as a continuous flow of time.
The work encompasses experiences of life and death, joy and sadness. The museum’s description emphasizes the accumulation of these events, suggesting that the slideshow’s structure is central to how the photographs are encountered and understood.
Kawauchi began photographing her family when she first took up a camera as a student and continued the project for 13 years. The resulting series is presented as a sustained record of domestic experience rather than a single moment or isolated episode.
The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum’s announcement does not provide dates, venue details beyond the ‘TOP Collection’ reference, or further information about the presentation. It identifies ‘Cui Cui’ as the work being featured and directs attention to the series’ meditation on the passage of time and the intertwined presence of ordinary events, loss and celebration.
