Yasumasa Morimura
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Employing theatrical makeup, elaborate costumes, props and digital manipulation, [Yasumasa] Morimura fastidiously refashions himself as heroines from the canon of painting… [like Frida Kahlo]. Yet, the artifice - and ultimately the failure - of his transformations are always conspicuous. By imitating though never quite becoming [her], Morimura unravels notions of male and female, east and west, past and present, original and adaptation.
Text written by Nicolas Bissaker for Sleek Magazine.