Artist
Morimura Yasumasa (Japanese, born 1951)Japanese, born 1951
CultureJapanese
Titles
- To My Little Sister: For Cindy Sherman
Date1998
PlaceJapan
MediumSilver dye bleach print
DimensionsImage: 26 1/4 × 47 1/8 in. (66.7 × 119.7 cm)
Sheet: 35 × 56 1/4 in. (88.9 × 142.9 cm)
Sheet: 35 × 56 1/4 in. (88.9 × 142.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Parnassus Foundation, courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein, and by Joan Morgenstern
Object number99.140
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
produced numerous self-portraits in his photographic series Daughters of Art History and Actresses. Borrowing the roles of female
archetypes from art and film, Morimura explored the ambiguities of gender by
using himself as the model in his photographs. To My Little Sister is his homage to Cindy Sherman. But, unlike
Sherman’s photographs in which Sherman becomes a Hollywood B-movie actress,
Morimura becomes Cindy Sherman herself, morphing her into a Japanese cultural
context.
Provenance[Satani Gallery]; purchased by MFAH, 1999.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Contemporary Art and Photography: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," MFAH, Upper Brown Pavilion, September 30, 2001 -February 3, 2002.
"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The photograph is unsigned.
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