Biennale Images Vevey
2018
We Oui!
We Oui!
After spending a large part of her life abroad, Fumiko Imano returned to Japan in 2002. Feeling deeply lonely, she invented a twin sister whom she materialized on photographs as a means to cure her melancholy. She cut out and pasted snapshots, juxtaposing her own image next to her imaginary double, immortalizing the childishness of a totally reinvented everyday life. The photographs of her We Oui! series were cut in two, and the two halves were sometimes presented with a slight gap, forcing visitors to move around in order to recompose the full image.
