MISAKO & ROSEN is pleased to announce Ayako Mogi's exhibition "Nomadomura".
Ayako Mogi was born in 1969 in Hokkaido, Japan. A selection of Mogi's recent past exhibitions includes "Kunisaki ArtProject", Oita Prefecture, Japan (2012) and "Beyond Beyond" held at MISAKO & ROSEN (2010). In 2007, Mogiparticipated in the Natural TIFF section of the Tokyo International FIlm Festival, screening her film "Silent Color SilentVoice". Following her receipt of the Cannon New Cosmos of Photography award (1992), Mogi relocated to Munich, Germany and subsequently Switzerland where her focus broadened to include the production of documentary films. In2006, Mogi, together with her husband, filmmaker Werner Penzel, opened the spaceLaboratoire Village Nomad inSwitzerland; this non-profit arts support organizationsubsequently moved to the island of Awajshima in Hyogo prefecture(2009), taking the name Nomadomura serving also as a site of creation for Mogi. The exhibition title refers to the base of Mogi's practice. Nomadomura is housed in a renovated former schoolhouse in a rural part of Awajishima; the spaceserves both as home to Mogi's family and her working space. Mogi also oversaw the renovation of the school infirmaryand faculty office creating a well-visited public cafe. The Nomadomura project is essentially a work-in-progress created jointly by Mogi and Penzel.

The tone and content of Mogi's images are directly related to the rhythm of her particular daily environment; she is notsimply producing a documentary style of photography; her images of landscape, for example, picture an intangiblequality - an air only reflected in her distinct vocabulary. This, Mogi's first solo exhibition since moving to Nomadomura, is comprised of single and serial photographs whose narrative quality allude to the filmic.

Courtesy of Misako & Rosen