Yasumasa Morimura: Animai-no-bi (Ambiguous Beauty) Exhibition Catalogues and perspectives it embraces

and perspectives it embraces

With contributions by Thomas Arslan

Designed by Phillipe Starck for FLOS

With a simple rotatory movement

Yasumasa Morimura: Animai-no-bi (Ambiguous Beauty) Exhibition Catalogues and perspectives it embracesYasumasa Morimura is a Japanese photographer and appropriation artist who frequently borrows historic and iconic images and recreates them using his own face and body. Through his work, Morimura has borrowed images from artists ranging from Manet and Rembrandt to Cindy Sherman and Frida Kahlo as a means to explore issues of identity, gender, politics, and art history. For this work, Morimura photographed himself as Marilyn Monroe in her first Playboy