The Japanese artist Kimiko Yoshida's first exhibition in Beijing took place at Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art III. In her photographs she incorporates all kinds of forgotten rituals and timeless mythologies, they are Self-portraits probably, but extricated from the weightiness of resemblance, ripped from psychological ponderousness, freed from universal gravity, ethereal. A sudden extension of a pre-Socratic Eden. Out of range of the usual nihilistic parody, the ambient trashy eroticism, the imposed sentimentalism. An art that isn't solely ravaged by death.