Miki Takahashi “The Flowers of that Garden / Specimens”

LAG is pleased to announce the solo exhibition The Flowers of that Garden / Specimens by photographer Miki Takahashi, on view from Friday, October 24 to Saturday, November 15, 2025.

This exhibition commemorates the publication of Takahashi’s first photobook The Flowers of that Garden (printed by Live Art Books), which is based on the series that won the Grand Prize at the Portfolio Review Photo Award of the Shiogama Photo Festival 2024.

Takahashi’s work begins with the garden of the house where she was born and raised, and with the presence of her grandfather, who was deeply involved in shaping it.
The forms of the garden tended by his hands and the traces left in the grain of the wooden house have transformed over time, appearing now within the landscapes before us.
She gathers fragments of everyday life—the plants in the garden, the texture of wood, the shifting shadows of light—and layers them onto photographic paper, constructing images that reconnect past and present, memory and landscape.

The images that emerge are not straightforward records of events, but traces that hold within them uncertain layers of time that have passed.
Within their ambiguous tremors, the emotional resonances etched into the house and the faint presence of what has been lost quietly arise.
Through this wavering, Takahashi shows how photography can go beyond the act of “seeing” to become a means of touching memories that lie deep within the mind and body.

—Artist Statement—

The house where I grew up has a large garden.

as if to quietly trace the contours of that transformation.

 
Miki Takahashi