Shizuka Yokomizo
#Photographe
- Exposition
The Talent Show at The Henry
In recent years, television’s «reality» shows and talent competitions, along with Web-based social media, have pioneered new models of cultural participation that offer people a conflicted chance at fame. At the same time, governments worldwide have asserted vast new powers of surveillance, putting unwitting «participants» on an entirely different stage. Against this backdrop, The Talent Show, examines a range of complicated relationships that have emerged between artists, audiences, and participants in light of the competing desires for notoriety and privacy that mark our present cultural moment. For almost half a century, artists have modeled and exploited these desires and dramatized the complex dynamics that surround them, often engaging people to participate in their work—both ... - Exposition
Shizuka Yokomizo : new series
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 th...
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In recent years, television’s «reality» shows and talent competitions, along with Web-based social media, have pioneered new models of cultural participation that offer people a conflicted chance at fame. At the same time, governments worldwide have asserted vast new powers of surveillance, putting unwitting «participants» on an entirely different stage. Against this backdrop, The Talent Show, examines a range of complicated relationships that have emerged between artists, audiences, and participants in light of the competing desires for notoriety and privacy that mark our present cultural moment. For almost half a century, artists have modeled and exploited these desires and dramatized the complex dynamics that surround them, often engaging people to participate in their work—both ...
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 th...