Photography // Videography // Writing

YUMI AKAEDA

Visual Artist, ​Model, Writer

Born in Japan, currently resides in France.

Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (majored in Linguistics and Japanese ​Studies), and received a Master's degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies from Paris 1 ​Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Presently, she is researching the “Female gaze” in cinema ​as a doctoral student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

She takes and makes abstract photographs/videos/films with her main interests in time ​and memories, light and colors, sounds and resonance. Also, with her experiences living in ​seven countries, she writes essays, texts and screenplays in multiple languages ​​(Japanese, ​Spanish, French and English).

東京外国語大学外国語学部（言語学・日本学）卒業。スペイン、ベルギーでの留学を経​て、パリ第１大学芸術学研究科にて映画・映像学修士号を取得。現在はバルセロナ自治​大学大学院博士課程に在籍し、映画と女性のまなざしについて研究中。

時間と記憶、光と色、音と共鳴をテーマに、抽象的・感覚的な写真や映像を撮影・制​作。また、７か国に暮らした経験を活かし、多言語(日・西・仏・英)で短編小説や詩​、シナリオ等を執筆している。フランス在住。​

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@yumi.akaeda

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