ABOUT MAKIKO

MAKIKO is a Japanese artist based in London working with photography, field recording, moving image, and installation. Her practice investigates how environments — and the archives, photographs, and documents that survive within them — are experienced through the body and senses, focusing on the relationship between place, perception, and memory. Through sustained observation and repeated visits to sites such as ruins, sacred landscapes, remote natural locations, and ancestral terrain, she records light, sound, and duration as perceptual phenomena, moving beyond documentation toward embodied registration.

Her interdisciplinary practice is grounded in a phenomenological approach, using visual and sonic media as extensions of perception. Recent work extends this inquiry into family history and transpacific memory, treating personal archives as sites where time, place, and inheritance converge. For MAKIKO, the photobook is a primary site of this inquiry — a form in which sequencing, materiality, and the encounter between image and text can enact the experience of memory and place. KYUGORO is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing.

Educated at the Royal College of Art (MA Photography, MRes School of Design), her work has been exhibited internationally, including The Photographers' Gallery, the Royal College of Art, and The National Art Centre Tokyo. Her publications are held in the collections of the Tate Library, Harvard University, and the Library of Congress.