mumok proudly presents "I’ll never ask you," the inaugural solo museum exhibition by Japanese artist Kazuna Taguchi. Delve into her compelling monochrome photographs, which meticulously explore body fragments, gestures, and gazes. This exhibition thoughtfully engages with surrealist traditions and questions the photographic representation of the female form through an intricate analog process.
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This is the first solo museum exhibition for Japanese artist Kazuna Taguchi, exploring her meticulously composed monochrome photographs. The works delve into body fragments, gestures, and gazes, resonating with surrealist traditions and questioning the photographic representation of the female body.
mumok is presenting the first solo museum exhibition of Japanese artist Kazuna Taguchi, who has been living in Vienna since 2013. Taguchi’s meticulously composed monochrome photographs convey body fragments, gestures, and gazes that resonate with the surrealist tradition concerning the questioning of the photographic representation of the female body. This can be moments of the phantomic or Yūgen ootnote{According to the Japanese poet Kamo no Chomei (1155—1216), yūgen is a feeling that is not openly expressed in words, but symbolically indicated by images.}-like, images that capture a figure in a state between appearance and disappearance. Taguchi's works are based on an analog and hands-on approach at the intersection of painting and photography. In an intricate process, the artist combines various visual sources that she paints only to photograph them in various environments and settings that suit the attributes of each painting, and ultimately incorporates elements of chance while manipulating the prints in the darkroom. Taguchi compares the multiple layers and repeated interventions that lead to a permeation of myriad textures, time planes, and narrative spaces to the work of a painter who keeps tirelessly returning to her easel and brush. This exhibition is a project as part of FOTO WIEN 2025.
Ticket information and pricing for various categories (Regular, Reduced) are displayed within the page's off-canvas ticket menu. Visitors can add selected tickets to their cart. The page also mentions 'More Infos' directing to a general tickets and opening hours page for further details, and also provides links for the 'mumok Annual Pass' and 'Bundesmuseen Card'. Free entry is indicated for certain categories, likely representing standard museum admission rather than specific exhibition tickets, with a prompt to add to cart for all options.
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