KiraKira - meaning “sparkling” in Japanese - is the name of the Swiss edition of Caviezel's Gifu Japanese edition chōchin lanterns created during her 2024 artist residency in Japan. KiraKira lanterns are rice paper skins over bamboo ribs rather than the traditional washi paper of her Gifu lanterns. Using Japanese ink and liquid dyes, Caviezel's colourful marks are a type of automatism that express the hidden colours, shadows and lights she discovered in Japan.

KiraKira lanterns are part of the continuum of Western artists entranced by chōchin that began in the 1950s when Isamu Noguchi translated chōchin as his Akari lights.

Exhibited and available at:

Museum Appenzell Konigs, St. Gallen Also available directly from Claudia Caviezel.