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Female universe of Miwa Yanagi
Miwa Yanagi interrogates the souls of Japanese women, revealing their ambitions and aspirations. Her latest series of photographs, My Grandmothers, uses a theatrical expedient: young women, aged 18 to 34, escape the constrictions of reality to interpret a possible future when, masked by makeup, they adopt the appearance of the future.
This journey through the female universe is in complete contrast with earlier works. Elevator Girls (1992) tells of a woman forced by circumstances to live in an extremely arid and repetitive context: a lift. Women in uniform: condemned always to be loveable, they must conceal their own life wishes. The Guggenheim exhibition represents the first show by a Japanese artist in a German museum. L.B.
