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Okanoue Toshiko 岡上淑子
Kill 獲物
1955
Okanoue Toshiko had a brief artistic career in the 1950s, making photographic collages while studying fashion design. She was fascinated with Western lifestyle magazines such as Life, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue. These publications became popular in Japan during the post-war years, when women began to express themselves more freely through clothes and consumption. In Kill, Okanoue assembles fragments of fashion magazines into a collage, depicting a model in a ballgown in a watery landscape. In the background, body parts are caught in a sequence of fishing nets. The absurd, dreamlike quality of the composition recalls the traditions of Surrealism, but Okanoue became familiar with the movement only later, when she met artist and poet Takiguchi Shuzo. Okanoue’s collages are a radical proposition for art making as the expression of a thoroughly individual vision.
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