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Premiere: Kings of Pastry
Directed by Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker
Fri, Oct 29 5:00 PM Fri, Oct 29 7:00 PM Sat, Oct 30 1:00 PM Sat, Oct 30 7:00 PM Sun, Oct 31 1:00 PM
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Miwa Yanagi—Deutsche Bank Collection
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On view Sunday, February 10 - Sunday, May 4, 2008 at the Caroline Wiess Law Building
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Yanagi Miwa, Elevator Girl House B4 from the series Elevator Girls , 1998
Deutsche Bank Collection
© Yanagi Miwa
Over her relatively short, but impressive career, Japanese artist Miwa Yanagi has fabricated three distinct series that confront and disrupt traditional perceptions of women. Elevator Girls, her first body of work, is inspired by the young women who work as "elevator girls" in Japanese department stores. Hiring physically similar types, Yanagi photographed the women in uniforms and posed in deserted modern shopping malls. The negatives were digitally amplified, with some printed in large scale. In her next series, My Granmothers, she asked young women to imagine their lives 50 years in the future, and created pictures based on their responses.
In the Fairy Tales series, Yanagi builds on fairy tales, focusing on stories in which the central characters are either young or old, then she reinvents the story by confusing the distinctions. Both roles are played by adolescent girls, but the older character wears the mask of an old hag. Shot in black-and-white, these photographs are, at times, violent and creepy, and these heroines are poles apart from the too-perfect elevator girls and the wise women in My Grandmothers. Having escaped the clarity of stereotypes, the girls in these obviously staged environments nevertheless maintain an element of flesh-and-blood vulnerability and complexity.
Lead sponsor: Deutsche Bank
Additional generous funding is provided by:
Carey C. Shuart
Humanities Texas, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Related Events:
Miwa Yanagi Panel Discussion: A Conversation about Feminine Beauty
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Monday, February 18, 2008 6:30 PM
Patron-Plus Preview Party and Lecture
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, February 8, 2008 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Spotlight Tour: Miwa Yanagi- Deutsche Bank Collection
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Thursday, March 6, 2008 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
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