EMI ANRAKUJI
Untitled 455
2015
“Emi Anrakuji represents herself as an alchemist of images and a catalyst for daydreams and desires. The vignettes of jigsaw puzzle-like photographs of herself and others blur the boundaries between documentary and staged photography. Posing naked, clothed, or partially dressed, Anrakuji takes a uniquely obsessive interest in her own body. Her legs, arms, toes, lips and hair create arresting compositions and erotic ambience. Anrakuji’s obsession with the human body is a result, in part, from her long periods spent hospitalized: after graduating from art school in Tokyo in the mid-1980s, she suffered a cerebral tumor that prevented her from making art for more than a decade. During her gradual recovery, she began to make block prints, then photographs.”
More of Emi Anrakuji’s work along with that from other cutting edge photographers and artists can be found at Miyako Yoshinaga.
The Miyako Yoshinaga gallery is in New York and is a ‘must visit’ art venue.
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