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As part of Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art\u2019s first anniversary exhibition, we are pleased to present a solo exhibition by Morimura Yasumasa (b. Osaka, 1951), one of Japan\u2019s leading contemporary artists. By creating self-portraits of himself as protagonists from art masterpieces, notable historical figures, and film actresses Morimura has visualized the multiplicity of individual identities that include gender and race, while expressing the intersection of personal and world history. In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions at the Japan Society (2018), the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (2017), the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2016), the Andy Warhol Museum (2013), and the Artizon Museum (2021), in addition to serving as the artistic director for the Yokohama Triennale 2014<\/i> among other positions. He continues to be active as an artist both in Japan and overseas.
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\nThe exhibition comprises four sections: M\u2019s Photo Corridor, Theater of Voices, Square for Dreams and Memories and Hidden Costume Closet. In addition to over 800 of Morimura\u2019s treasured instant photographs taken since 1984, which have rarely been shown in public, the exhibition will feature a specially prepared acoustic space in which the audio from Morimura\u2019s CD Faces<\/i>, on which he reads his own novel written in 1994, will be recreated as a closet drama. This will be Morimura\u2019s first large-scale solo exhibition in Kyoto since 1998, and the first attempt to reveal the entirety of his private world, which has continued for over thirty-five years.
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\nMorimura\u2019s expression, in which the self is deconstructed by taking the place of others to expose the multiple faces of the individual, shares similarities with the \u201cselfie\u201d that has been popularized by the evolution of smartphones and the spread of social media, and yet it also has a decidedly different aspect. In his images, one can discern Morimura\u2019s penetrating gaze at the self, and an overwhelming affirmation of the multiple selves that a person can assume in their lives. By returning to the origin of his own production, this exhibition will present Morimura\u2019s current state as he gropes for the future amidst the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14625,"parent":0,"template":"","exhibition_cat":[],"class_list":["post-12054","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/12054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/12054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14834,"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/12054\/revisions\/14834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition_cat?post=12054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}