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Yasumasa morimuraOn Self-Portrait: Through the Looking-Glass
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| On Self-Portrait - 2007 - 25 x 20 cm
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On Self-Portrait: Through the Looking-Glass
Introduction by Yasumasa Morimura
One of my favorite fantasy novels of all times is The Chronicles
of Narnia, written by C. S. Lewis.
The story is about a group of young British boys and girls
who in reality carry on ordinary lives, but they all share a big
secret. The secret is that there exists another world called
Narnia in which the children are leading a completely diffe-
rent life as princes and princesses, and even the dimmest of
the children in real life can go to Narnia to accomplish heroic
tasks like saving and ruling the Kingdom of Narnia. Granted
I myself am not a resident of Narnia, but I too have my own
secret realm similar to Narnia. It is the ‘Kingdom of Art.’
Just like how the children of The Chronicles of Narnia
became princes and princesses, not only can I imagine myself
becoming a different person but I actually can turn myself into any
existence, whether it be someone from a famous painting, a
movie actress, a singer, an animal, or a monster. And I am
about to devote at least half of my life to this secret realm of the
‘Kingdom of Art.’
Self-portrait, to me, is a living experimentation in which I at-
tempt to shift myself into the ‘Kingdom of Art,’ a secret realm
separated and different from the reality. There is a possibility
that if the experiment fails I might never make it back to the
real world, and this I say from my own experience in the past.
It is indeed an experiment full of risks, however, the most
dangerous challenges are the most seductive. It is certain that,
for the rest of my days, I will never find escape from my own
expressions of a self-portrait.
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art history through the looking-glass
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| Prologue (Just Before Sleep) - 1997 - Instant Black and White Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Portrait (Futago) - 1990 - 266 x 366 cm
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| Absence of a Servant - 1988 - Instant Colour Film 10 x 13 cm
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| Blue Dress at Three in the Afternoon - 1989 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Daughter of Art History (Princess B) - 1990 - 210 x 160 cm
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| Day of Eating a Pomegranate - 1991 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Portrait (Pomegranate) - 1991 - 200 x 100 cm
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| Portait (Fan) - 1991 - 140 x 120 cm
| Opening a Souvenir Fan - 1991 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Six Brides - 1991 - 140 x 120 cm
| Six Brides (Wearing a Headdress) - 1991 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Six Brides (Holding a Cherry Blossom) - 1991 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Six Brides (Holding a Goblet) - 1991 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Blinded by the Light - 1991 - 200 x 363 cm
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| Wherabouts of a Child - 1991 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Swamped by Bills - 1991 - Instant Colour Film 10 x 13 cm
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| Wherabouts of a Soldier - 1991 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Young Self-Portrait 2 - 1994 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Young Self-Portrait 1 - 1994 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Unfinished Self-Portrait - 1994 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Young Self-Portrait 3 - 1994 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Lover - 1994 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Mother - 1994 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Later Years - 1994 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Wife - 1994 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Mona Lisa Through the Looking-Glass 1 - 1998 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm|Mona Lisa in its Origin
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| Mona Lisa Through the Looking-Glass 3 - 1998 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm|Mona Lisa Through the Looking-Glass 2
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| Mona Lisa Through the Looking-Glass 4 - 1998 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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|This is What Judith Said | Mother (Judith I) - 1991 - 240 x 160 cm
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actress through the looking-glass
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|Portrait of Marilyn
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| Portrait of Marilyn - 1995 - Instant Black and White Film 13 x 10 cm
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|White Marilyn | Black Marilyn - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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|Audrey Hepburn 2 | Audrey Hepburn 1 (Tiffany’s) - 1995 - Instant Black and White Film 13 x 10 cm
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|Ingrid Bergman 1 | Ingrid Bergman 2 (Casablanca) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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|Sophia Loren | Liza Minelli (Cabaret) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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|Elizabeth Taylor 1 | Elizabeth Taylor 2 (Cleopatra) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 10 x 13 cm
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| Elizabeth Taylor 3 - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Elizabeth Taylor 4 - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 10 x 13 cm
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| Silvia Kristel 1 (Emmanuelle) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Silvia Kristel 2 (Emmanuelle) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Silvia Kristel 3 (Emmanuelle) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Silvia Kristel 4 (Emmanuelle) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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|Silvia Kristel 5 ( | Silvia Kristel 6 (Emmanuelle) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Faye Dunaway 1 (Bonnie and Clyde) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Faye Dunaway 2 (Bonnie and Clyde) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Faye Dunaway 3 (Bonny and Clyde) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 8,6 x 10,6 cm | Faye Dunaway 4 (Bonny and Clyde) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Jane Fonda 1 (Barbarella) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 10 x 13 cm
| Jane Fonda 2 (Barbarella) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 10 x 13 cm
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| Jane Fonda 3 (Barbarella) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Jane Fonda 4 (Barbarella) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Jane Fonda 5 (Barbarella) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Greta Garbo 1 - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Greta Garbo 2 - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Greta Garbo 3 - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| Greta Garbo 4 - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Greta Garbo 5 - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 8,6 x 10,6 cm
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| Catherine Deneuve 1 (Belle de Jour) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | Catherine Deneuve 2 (Belle de Jour) - 1995 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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M through the looking-glass
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| Vivien Leigh (Gone With The Wind) - 1995 - Instant Black and White Film 13 x 10 cm
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> | M in Black Suits 1 - 4 - 1997 - Instant Black and White Film 13 x 10 cm
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< | M in a Ribbon-Printed Dress 1 - 4 - 1996 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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> | M and a Mannequin in the Looking-Glass 1 - 4 - 1997 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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> | M‘s Basement 1 - 8 - 1997 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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| M and Sunflower - 1997 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | M Holding a Cigarette - 1997 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
| M in a White Dress - 1997 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm | M in a China Dress - 1997 - Instant Colour Film 13 x 10 cm
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