Kazuna Taguchi‘s enigmatic works at the threshold between painting and photography convey body fragments, gestures, and gazes in the surrealist tradition of undermining conventional representations of the female body. Drawing from a repository of image sources, Taguchi interweaves different temporalities, narrative spaces, and viewing regimes. In her pictures, the figures seem suspended in a phantasmatic moment between appearance and disappearance. The intangible distance that emanates from these phantasmal yet clearly composed photographs testifies to Taguchi’s resistant engagement with a present that is governed by visual feedback loops and unrelenting work on the digital “self“.

Heike Eipeldauer, curator, mumok, and Martin Germann, curator, Cologne, talk about Taguchi‘s artistic practice and her first solo museum exhibition outside Japan, I’ll never ask you, at mumok.