Yuka
Date2000
Maker
Miwa Yanagi
Japanese, born 1967
Label TextMiwa Yanagi’s staged photographs offer a collision of East and West, present and future. For this series, the artist interviewed Japanese girls aged fourteen to twenty and asked them to imagine themselves in fifty years’ time. This photograph of a spirited couple speeding across the Golden Gate Bridge was based on the vision of a girl named Yuka, who saw herself as a carefree “grandma” living “somewhere far, far away” with her playboy lover. It is a poignant self-reflection of one young Japanese woman, as well as an examination of female identity in Japan.
Object number2004.33
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern in America, July 8, 2004 - Feb. 27, 2005.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Be/Longing: Contemporary Asian
Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing [on view Feb. 8, 2020 - July 11, 2021].Credit LineGift of Janet Ketcham
Dimensions63 x 63 in. (160 x 160cm)
additional text: 15 5/8 x 15 5/8in.
MediumChromogenic print, Plexiglas, Dibond mounted on aluminum
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