NINOMIYA Naohiro, Photography, invited artist, La fabrique des éléments

Naohiro Ninomiya lives and works in Strasbourg.

He was born in 1969 in Nagoya, Japan.

In 1996, he left his job in a company to work on a farm in the Hokkaido region.

He moved to France in 1998.

Taki:

For me, waterfalls are a place of mystery where I feel an indescribable and inhuman presence that both frightens and intrigues me. There is a painting entitled “Painting of the Nachi Waterfall” which, for 14 centuries, was thought to embody divinity. The first time I saw this painting, I saw nothing more than an elegant brushstroke on a sheet of paper against a dark background. It was only afterwards that I discovered all the detail and depth it contained and reconnected with my initial, contradictory impression of waterfalls. 'Taki' is a contemporary translation of this painting."