37 – Chino Otsuka

Japan (1972)
Imagine Finding Me
Jardin de Nestlé Bergère
Outdoor with timetable

Imagine Finding Me looks like a series of simple photographs from a family album. However, Chino Otsuka combines photographs from her childhood, taken between 1975 and 1985, with her own portraits, shot between 2005 and 2009. Ten years before the development of artificial intelligence, the images digitally reunite the adult photographer with the child she was some 20 years earlier. At the age of ten, Otsuka left her home country to study at a boarding school in the UK. Like a journey through time, the Japanese artist returns to the places she frequented and reinterprets her memories. Exploring the link between memory and photography, both analogue and digital, this intimate project delves into the subjectivity of Otsuka, who becomes a ‘tourist of her own history’.

Exhibition layout and design by Images Vevey and the artist
In collaboration with Nestlé