TAB Event - Yasumasa Morimura "Requiem for Something - Art at the Summit of the Battlefield"

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At Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Media: Photography, Film

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Since the 1980s, Yasumasa Morimura has been producing a series of photographic self-portraits that feature himself dressed up as characters from famous paintings, well-known film actresses and so on.

This exhibition showcases his new "Requiem" series in its entirety. These works depict the artist dressed up as a number of famous men from the 20th century. Using his own body as a vessel for the recreation of historical memory, Morimura's self portraits evoke respect and admiration for the public figures, manifestoes and philosophies that shaped the 20th century, offering themselves up as a 21st century requiem to these vanished figures.

[Image: Seafood: Flag at the Summit of the Battlefield (2010)]

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