Morimura’s Actresses

This section of the exhibition focuses on Yasumasa Morimura’s restaging of scenes from award winning films featuring Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Liza Minnelli, Jodie Foster and many others.  It is notable that the artist’s impersonations are not anonymous but well­known stars, archetypes of Hollywood’s leading ladies.

As stated in their titles, each work is a self­-portrait and together they propose a range of possibilities for the artist’s own identity. Morimura has stated, “My own self­-definition includes this entire zone of possibilities. When I apply this way of thinking to making a self­-portrait, it becomes what I call an ‘open self-­portrait.’”