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 The work is presented in alongside a recently acquired DVD work by Yasumasa MORIMURA Seasons of Passion/A Requiem: Mishima (2006) as well as his Slaughter Cabinet II installation. Also featured are the books Barakei (Ordeal by Roses) and Barakei (Killed by Roses) from 1971 and 1963 respectively, which were collaboratively produced by Eikoh HOSOE, Yukio MISHIMA and Tadanori YOKOO. Curated by Judy Annear, this installation focuses on issues to do with selfhood, desire, beauty and destruction. The works move through various histories, divinities, masculinities, fantasies and fictions – eventually realising a destination that is somewhere near the ‘city not to be found on the map of any land, a city of awesome silences’ where Mishima first imagined himself. Inherently preoccupied with the performance of identity, each of the artists acts as their own model; paradoxical models who are both looked at and looking back. Shifting across continents, the artists deconstruct a notion of historical figures as contemporary icons, encompassing the clashes of East and West, colonial and capital, cultural and commercial, that have defined late 20th century and early 21st century history.  Posted on Wednesday 20 August 2008 - 09:48:21 By luke  |
