Shizuka Yokomizo
Galería Leyendecker Rambla General Franco, 86 38004 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Espagne
Shizuka Yokomizo (born in Tokyo in 1966, lives and works in London) comes again to Leyendecker Gallery to show her new series "All" and the video-installation "Flow". In this occasion, Yokomizo portraits prostitutes from London in their workplaces, only after having negotiated a price with them to be used as subjects of her photographs. In a dimly iluminated environment, we can see naked bodies, with veiled faces and far from any paradigm of beauty.
Apparently, Yokomizo shows the fleshly matter, the object of desire that can be bought with money, but also intends to suggest a reading that goes beyond any sexual interpretation. For instance, by placing lipstick stains painted on some body parts she reasserts the hidden, immaterial, sensual and female link that is stablished between the artist and the prostitute, during the artistic act.
As happens in very few works, Shizuka Yokomizo's photos and videos allow us to breath the invisible relationship between the artist/viewer and the represented subject, while a secret dealogue is heard, that tells us about the universe of the private and its opening to the artistic reality.