Yoshida creates large, color photographs of herself wearing costumes varying in cultural attire to haute couture, regarding the self-portrait as a type of disappearance, protesting the norms of gender. She considers art as “a subtle process of transposition, an assiduous struggle with the state of things; to be there where I think I am not, to disappear where I think I am, that is what matters.” Yoshida plays with the idea of alleged authenticity by using cultural references. Although the artist uses these costumes and titles of her work as a way to convey marriage, she is not doing so in attempt to validate marriage, but to portray her opposition to marriage.
FESTIVAL
Paris Photo Los Angeles
Garis & Hahn
May 1st – 3rd, 2015
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
Paramount Pictures Studios
Los Angeles
780 N. Gower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90038
United States
