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          Japanese photographer, Miwa Yanagi constructs elaborate and complex images that examine the representation of women in contemporary Japanese.

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          Miwa Yanagi

          Japanese artist

          Miwa Yanagi (やなぎみわ, Yanagi Miwa) is a Japanesephotographic artist who examines self-image and stereotypes of women in contemporary Japanese society.

          Yanagi was discovered by conceptual photographer Yasumasa Morimura, who noticed some of her work while borrowing her house as a set for a separate project.

          Biography

          Miwa Yanagi was born in 1967 in Kobe, Japan.

          My review of Miwa Yanagi's recent “Lullaby” exhibition at the Rat Hole Gallery is now out in the May issue of Artforum.

          She completed her postgraduate course work at the Kyoto City University of Arts.[1] Yanagi received two degrees at this university: one in crafts in 1989, then another in art in 1991. She worked mostly with fiber installation art pieces.

          It was only when she needed to photograph these works for documentation that she realized her skill at photography and decided to pursue this new line of art. One of her first ever photography pieces was titled White Casket(1993) and is now a part of her larger collection: Elevator Girls(1994).[2] She is known mainly as a photograph