Yasumasa Morimura
Japanese photographer and video artist · Japan · On the map · Artists · Born 1951 · age 75
Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese performance and appropriation artist whose work encompasses photography, film, and live performance.
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A typical day, 30 days to 2 August 2026
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He is known for his reinterpretation of recognizable artworks and figures from art history, history, and mass media through his adoption of personas that transcend national, ethnic, gendered, and racial boundaries. Across his photographic and performative series, Morimura's works explore a number of interconnected themes, including: the nature of identity and its ability to undergo change, postcolonialism, authorship, and the Western view of Japan - and Asia, more broadly - as feminine.
