Artist Spotlight: Miwa Yanagi
28 Jul 2009 8 Comments
in Art, Culture, Japan, Japanese Culture, photography Tags: Art, Artist Spotlight, Japan, japanese art, miwa yanagi, photography, venice art biennial
A new (to me) Japanese artist that I discovered on TV. She’s the spotlight artist for Japan at the the Venice Art Biennial this year. Her display is called “Windswept Women.”
Windswept Women1
At first I was put off by these images – they’re so violent and odd, almost like giantesses ready to eat someone’s children.
Windswept Women 2
When I looked harder, I saw their faces, their strength in the face of the wind, their wild enjoyment… it came to me that they are all faces of a woman’s experience through life….
Windswept Women 3
Denying an aging body with a youthful mind…
Windswept Women 4
…being joyful in their own skins…
Windswept Women 5
Miwa Yanagi’s homepage includes several other of her collections which are creepy and though provoking. Check it out here.
~MS the Younger
Jul 29, 2009 @ 03:51:34
Wow..I need a minute here to compose myself….interesting.i normally like black and white photos..this might give me bad dreams…not sure i want to meet this girl…zman sends
Jul 29, 2009 @ 06:33:49
lol i felt that was at first myself, but they’ve grown on me ^^ her other photo series have the same sense of whimsical…. creepiness… ^^;;;
Jul 31, 2009 @ 06:27:44
I think these are VERY COOL!
Aug 01, 2009 @ 06:05:19
Very creepy indeed.
Aug 01, 2009 @ 07:38:05
Disturbing images, reminiscent of Cindy Sherman & Lisa Yuskavage. Are these figures straddling the Japanese islands?
Aug 01, 2009 @ 11:23:09
as far as i know they’re just little landscapes the artists made, not representative of any country in specific…
Aug 01, 2009 @ 12:30:03
Excellent find! I am inspired… now all I need to do is talk that J-cup model of mine to do some cave woman poses…! I LOVE nudes that are NOT beautiful. Now, I’m off to her site… please excuse me for a couple of hours!