{"id":2564,"date":"2026-01-27T18:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:53:46","slug":"mizuekitada_en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/exhibition\/en\/mizuekitada_en\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizue Kitada \u201cImmortal Star\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PAST EXHIBITION<\/p>\n

Mizue Kitada \u201cImmortal Star\u201d <\/h1>\n

Friday, February 13 \u2014 Saturday, February 28<\/s> Saturday, March 7<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a9 Mizue Kitada<\/p>\n

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Mizue Kitada \u201cImmortal Star\u201d
\nFriday, February 13 \u2013 Saturday, February 28<\/s> Saturday, March 7<\/span> 2026 13:00\u201319:00 <\/p>\n

Closed on Sundays, Mondays and Holidays
\nVenue\uff1aLAG (LIVE ART GALLERY)
\nDaiwa Jingumae Bldg. 1F, 2-4-11 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
\nOpening reception: Saturday, February 14, 18:00\u201319:00 <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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LAG is pleased to present \u201cImmortal Star,\u201d a solo exhibition by photographer Mizue Kitada, on view from Friday, February 13 to Saturday, February 28. This exhibition is held to commemorate the publication of her new photobook Immortal Star (printed by Live Art Books). <\/p>\n

Born in Wakayama, where she continues to live and work, Kitada received the Grand Prize at the Shiogama Photo Festival in 2016, and in 2018 published the photobook We Are All One Skin, based on her award-winning work. Since then, she has continued her photographic practice from within her immediate surroundings, inseparable from the time of everyday life. <\/p>\n

\u201cImmortal Star,\u201d presented in this exhibition, is a new photographic series Kitada has been working on in recent years. <\/p>\n

Through photographing those close to her\u2014people, dogs, plants, and other presences\u2014Kitada has sought to fix in her images the tactile texture of everyday life, along with a felt sense of living presence within it. Over time, this accumulation has led her to a point where her attention turns, regardless of whether something remains in memory or record, toward the very fact of existence itself. <\/p>\n

Even if something slips from memory, the fact that it once existed does not disappear. And the way it exists can never be taken away\u2014\u201cImmortal Star\u201d was born from Kitada\u2019s belief in this unwavering nature of \u201cexistence.\u201d <\/p>\n

This series looks steadily toward the core of \u201cways of being\u201d that cannot be subsumed by another\u2019s measure, and presents their inviolability through photography. People, dogs, mikans, plants, inanimate objects, and other presences from Kitada\u2019s surroundings\u2014each carrying layers of time formed through encounters, crossings, and relationships in daily life\u2014remain in the photographs while retaining their own singularity. <\/p>\n

During the exhibition, a talk event with the artist will be held on Saturday, February 14, welcoming Maiko Kobayashi, curator at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. We warmly invite you to visit the exhibition. <\/p>\n

 
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\u2014Artist Statement\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

What exists\/What exists but is ignored\/What is noticed\/
\nThey are all different, but all were there before you found them, and will remain after you leave, whether they are people, places, or lost items. <\/p>\n

 
\nAlthough every being is complete in itself, many people still measure others by their standards, cross boundaries unasked, and voice opinions uninvited. In such behavior, there is a gaze that seeks to take, to possess. <\/p>\n

 
\nI was born and raised in Wakayama, Japan, and still live there.
\nMy family are farmers, growing mikans and persimmons.
\nEver since I was little, I played in the mountain groves, and even now, when I lie down among the fields, I feel a deep sense of comfort.
\nI listen carefully to the sound of the wind rustling through the trees, feel ants climbing up my wrist, and breathe in the scent of earth and grass.
\nLittle by little, I feel myself, a human, becoming a part of nature.
\nThe true meaning of comfort is the feeling of shedding one’s human skin, returning to life\u2019s origin and softly saying, \u201cI\u2019m home.\u201d <\/p>\n

 
\nThrough photography and through living, I came to imagine that a dog, mikan, plant, and human\u2014every being\u2014is a life wrapped in a single sheet of skin.
\nAn animistic point of view in the bottom of my heart was cultivated while I was taking photos, helping my family to farm, gazing at my dog, living my life, or spending time with the women who let me photograph them. <\/p>\n

 
\nAll life\u2014animate or inanimate, named or nameless, visible or invisible\u2014is a singular existence, and lives with this hard truth, regardless of form or circumstance, for better or worse.
\nWhich is scary, but interesting at the same time.
\nWhether it’s a living thing, a rock, a city, untouched nature, an abandoned arcade, BOOKOFF (a chain of second-hand bookstores), a watch, a lost item, a mikan, me, or you, life is complete in itself. <\/p>\n

 
\nMizue Kitada <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PROFILE<\/h2>\n

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\nMizue Kitada <\/b><\/p>\n

Born in 1991 in Wakayama, Japan, where she still lives.
\nPublications include \u201cWe Are All One Skin\u201d and \u201cInubot Kairanban\u201d.
\nIn 2016, she received the Grand Prize for her portfolio at the Shiogama Photo Festival, and as part of the award, her photo book \u201cWe Are All One Skin” was published.
\nUnder the handle “inubot” on the former Twitter (now X), she shares daily photographs of her beloved dog. In 2019, she published the photo essay “Inubot Kairanban” (literally, “community circular board”) with Fusosha Publishing. <\/p>\n

Selected Exhibitions
\n2014\u3000\u201c1_WALL\u201d\uff08Guardian Garden,Tokyo\uff09
\n2018\u3000\u201cWe Are All One Skin\u201d\uff08Alt_Medium\/Tokyo\uff09
\n2018\u3000\u201cWe Are All One Skin\u201d\uff08Build Space,Miyagi\uff09
\n2019\u3000\u201cinubot\u201d\uff08Alt_Medium\/Tokyo\uff09 <\/p>\n

Twitter(now X)\/Instagram\uff1a@inu_10kg <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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BOOKS<\/h2>\n

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\u201cImmortal Star\u201d <\/h3>\n

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\nPublication Date: February 13, 2026 (Friday)
\nAuthor: Mizue Kitada
\nDesign: Kanako Taki (soda design)
\nContributor: Yurina Kaneko
\nTranslation: Satsuki Hashiba
\nPrinting & Binding: Live Art Books Co., Ltd.
\nSize: 297 \u00d7 210 mm
\nPages: 72 pp.
\nPrice\uff1a4,070 JPY\uff08tax included\uff09\n<\/p><\/div>\n

 
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