About Yukimi Akiba

Yukimi Akiba lives in Japan, and works primarily in mixed media and embroidery. She created a series of Polaroid self-portraits, “Creative ‘Self’ Destruction” in 2019-2021, isolating herself from the world. The process played an important role as a therapy for illness, as a way of not physically harming herself or others, and as a way of rebuilding what she had lost in her life due to trauma.
The “Timeless Knots” project, which she began in 2021 using found vintage photographs, is her attempt to reconstruct a new relationship with others and the world, and the experiment in empathy and visual language that emerges from it. The timeless dialogue between photographer, sitter, former owner, and herself is carefully and emotionally stitched, stitch by stitch, with respect, and transformed into contemporary art form. Her original works are held in private collections worldwide, and her poetic manner with thread brings new narratives and interpretations to forgotten objects.