Rika Noguchi

Born in 1971 in Japan, she lives and works in New York (USA).

Rika Noguchi's photographs of urban or natural landscapes are part of a tradition of landscape "state of mind", which evokes both the romantic mysticism of a Caspar David Friedrich and the contemporary fictional realism of a Walter Niedermayr. Following his first works in black and white, depicting buildings under construction (Record of creation, 1994-1996), Noguchi produced "dream images" where the visible appears tenuous, almost in a state of disappearance. Such is the case with his series Seing Birds (1997), pure landscapes in which a tiny kite player can be seen, or the one exhibited in Cahors, A Prime (1998), made on Mount Fuji, in which the mist muffles the subjects and the contours, as if man had just appeared on earth or set foot on the moon.