MIMI TOHU - 3/03/2022 “A-loh Boh may-may” / “the Light’s lover” interviewed by Tianita Miramax 🌸
Tianita : Hello Mimi, can you introduce yourself for the furbz that never heard of you ?
Mimi Tohu : Dah ay-loh u-tye ! My name is Mimi Tohu, i’m 20, i live in Koo-dah since 2019, i have spent most of my life on Earth, in France, Italy and Spain. I worked for fashion magazines there. When I decided to come back to the Cloud Continent, i needed to rethink my approach of photography, i wanted to find the reason why i was doing it in the first place.
T: That seems to be the purpose of your new series “A-loh” (*light), did you find what you were looking for ?
MT: it is quite a question… Since 2019 i took pictures as an astronaut, recreating the “earthly atmosphere” in wich i evolved during many years. I almost felt like i could not understand this world anymore. Everything looked too material, too strongly present, even if the colours where satisfying.
I was looking for something else, something impalpable, like a very distant childhood memory. I realised that it could be the light itself. The light is very different on the Cloud Continent, because we are closer to the Sun than on Earth. It has this look of what earthlings would call paradise. A very soft context for the bodies to appear, the light is really all around, softening clouds and it reacts differently with the camera. So yeah, i think i found what really moved me with photography, the reassuring omnipresence of Light.
T: In “A-loh” you also evoke myths, as you previously did in your older series 2015 “Edenia”, is that important for you to revisit those set-ups ?
MT: I really loved my Earth mythology classes back in the days, i remember it was often very difficult for a furb like me to get the meaning behind those stories, and i had no clue about Furby myths either so i just jumped into this world of symbols like a baby in a pool… And I fell in love with those people who pop-up from shells… *laughs*
I like to emulate humans sometimes, so i put my models into typically human situations. For example we would never pose as divinities, because it is a weird idea ! But it can be fun doing that just to embody something bigger than you. I like to try things, i don’t like to take them too seriously. It can also be a way to chase A-loh.
T: Will you pursue the chase in upcoming projects ?
MT: Ee for sure ! i’m currently working with a team of meteorologists on a independent movie project directed by Trolouka Ruby expected for next year ! We study the composition of clouds and microcosms that have developed inside. It’s a very poetic piece of work about ecology and society.
And an extended version of “A-loh” will be shown in the collective exhibition Oo-tee (*Sky animals) at the NEST in April so i am very noo-loo !
T: yay ! Dah-kah-oo-nye Mimi ! We will be there !
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You can see the photographs by Mimi Tohu in their open studio : 3 lay-lah / Koo-dah / Dah ay-loh-may-lah or on the many photobooks on sales in your best libraries ! The photo series will of course be available for MegafurbZ in exclusivity !
See photos HERE !