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Yuki Kimura
Kastura (2012) is an installation consisting of 24 black-and-white photographs of the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto bequeathed by Kimura’s grandfather; free-standing structures on which they are hung; and ornamental plants. The photographs appear to have been taken in late 1950s soon after tours of the villa were first offered to the public. Then, as today, visitors were led by a guide and could only follow a designated route.
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Xaviera Simmons
Xaviera Simmons often employs her own body and collected materials in the service of her photographs and performances. Not to be mistaken as mere portraiture, however, Simmons’ works are explorations of the Black body in relation to landscape and other dimensions of non-linear space and time. Concealing and flattening her subjects with costumes and collage-like, abstract pictorial devices, the artist arranges archival photographs, printed textiles, and anthropological artifacts in configurations that highlight the power of visual culture to shape contemporary understandings of the self.
Xaviera Simmons
- location: Brooklyn, New York
- year born: 1974
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: New York, New York
Yuki Kimura
Focusing on the temporal and spatial layers inherent in the medium of photography, Yuki Kimura constructs relationships between photographs and exhibition spaces that imbue the act of viewing with new dynamism....