Hide and Seek

Ayumi has been working on collage work by using photography and three-dimensional mixed media. As approaching with the use of fairytales to tell personal stories, she tries to silhouette remembrance and oblivescence of own childhood.

As exposing and hiding the emotional component, she seeks depth of memories by multiple layers of shadows of mementos within a diorama. The stories are comprised of private snap shots, craft paper cutout images, and appropriate images from the Internet as symbols to create stories besides photographs that she takes for collage components.

About the photographer

Ayumi Tanaka is a Japanese-born artist, living and working in New York City. She received a BFA from Osaka University of Arts in Japan in 2002, and studied at International Center of Photography in 2010. She has been working on reminiscences of fairytales composed of three-dimensional mixed media and photography. Her work has been presented internationally at exhibitions including 25 CPW Red Roots Gallery in NY, Pictura Gallery in Bloomington IN, Guthrie Contemporary in New Orleans LA, ITEZA Sculpture Gallery, Kyoto in Japan, Pingyao International Photography Festival 2010 in China, at the Dumbo Arts Festival 2011 in NY. She has been invited to show her latest work at LOOK3 festival of the Photographs 2012 in Charlottesville VA. She was awarded International Center of Photography Director Fellowship in 2010. Ayumi has been working on collage work by using photography and three-dimensional mixed media. As approaching with the use of fairytales to tell personal stories, she tries to silhouette remembrance and oblivescence of own childhood. As exposing and hiding the emotional component, she seeks depth of memories by multiple layers of shadows of mementos within a diorama. The stories are comprised of private snap shots, craft paper cutout images, and appropriate images from the Internet as symbols to create stories besides photographs that she takes for collage components.