Yuka

2000

Japanese, born 1967

Miwa 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.

Chromogenic print, Plexiglas, Dibond mounted on aluminum

63 x 63 in. (160 x 160cm)

additional text: 15 5/8 x 15 5/8in.

Gift of Janet Ketcham

2004.33

Not currently on view

Resources

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].

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