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Junko Yamasaki, "Leather Suit, lady's suit with human body hair," 1996-97, c-print, 1998, 35 x 79 inches.
Junko Yamasaki
Junko Yamasaki explores issues of cultural identity, geographical relationships, and erotic sensuality. Her work is informed by Eastern philosophy, the traditional arts of Japan (she studied the tea ceremony in Kyoto for three years) and issues in contemporary art. A recent body of digitally altered photographs unites dual photographs of different neighborhoods, cities, and even countries into a single image. Demarcations are blended to an effect which often underscores their physical similarities. Yamasaki also produces three-dimensional topographical maps of continents and reconfigures their cardinal points of east, and west. Some of her most interesting work involves the use of body and particularly pubic hair. In the tradition of painting the female nude, artists have often neglected to paint pubic hair. One theory for this omission is that hair represents power, as in the biblical story of Samson and Delilah.Yamasaki recaptures this power by placing pubic hair on the surface of both male and female garments. She also creates shirts and neckties that have sprouted body hair. In so doing, she intensifies the primal, sexually charged nature of all human interaction.
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Junko Yamasaki, "Leather Suit, lady's suit with human body hair," 1996-97, c-print, 1998, 35 x 79 inches.
Junko Yamasaki
Junko Yamasaki explores issues of cultural identity, geographical relationships, and erotic sensuality. Her work is informed by Eastern philosophy, the traditional arts of Japan (she studied the tea ceremony in Kyoto for three years) and issues in contemporary art. A recent body of digitally altered photographs unites dual photographs of different neighborhoods, cities, and even countries into a single image. Demarcations are blended to an effect which often underscores their physical similarities. Yamasaki also produces three-dimensional topographical maps of continents and reconfigures their cardinal points of east, and west. Some of her most interesting work involves the use of body and particularly pubic hair. In the tradition of painting the female nude, artists have often neglected to paint pubic hair. One theory for this omission is that hair represents power, as in the biblical story of Samson and Delilah.Yamasaki recaptures this power by placing pubic hair on the surface of both male and female garments. She also creates shirts and neckties that have sprouted body hair. In so doing, she intensifies the primal, sexually charged nature of all human interaction.
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