Mika Ninagawa "Everlasting Flowers 1"

Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya

Finished

Artists

Mika Ninagawa

Ninagawa, a young photographer active in the magazine and advertising worlds, photographs man-made flowers made for cemeteries. In places that have strong sunlight, such as Mexico, Guam and Saigon, there is the custom of putting fake flowers on graves and Ninagawa has repeatedly travelled around the world to photograph them since she encountered them for the first time. Shot in close-up, these brightly coloured flowers look as though they are real, and yet viewers eventually realize that they are made of material and when they see the image of the Virgin Mary, they understand that the location is a cemetery.

Schedule

Nov 11 (Sat) 2006-Nov 26 (Sun) 2006

Opening Hours Information

Hours	11:00-19:00
Closed	Monday Open on public holidays but closed on the following day (unless this falls on a public holiday when the venue will open).

Fee

Free

Venue

Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
http://www.tokyo-ws.org/english/shibuya/