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Ikkan Art Gallery presents Requiem for the XX century: Self-portraits in motion by Morimura Yasumasa

SINGAPORE.- Ikkan Art Gallery announces the first solo show in Singapore for the internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Morimura Yasumasa. This exhibition showcases moving image and photographic works from his Requiem series which recently toured museums in Japan. Morimura (b.1951, Osaka), the “Daughter of Art History”, appropriates universally well-known images derived from art history, mass media and pop culture to create unconventional and bold self-­portrait renderings in photography, performance and video. Through the extensive use of props, costumes, make-­up and digital manipulation, Morimura masterfully transforms himself into recognizable subjects that punctuate the western cultural canon. His unsettling deconstruction of iconic images challenges the assumptions already placed on such works/images while commenting on Japan’s complex and conflicting absorption of Western culture. His