New Skin Edition:Signed the Photographers Gallery

the Photographers Gallery

and at the same time destroys “I”

until he established his signature style of stark graphic illustration

Some are simple and linear--a man smokes a cigarette while he waits for a bus in Las Vegas

impeding the subjective perception of his viewer

New Skin Edition:Signed the Photographers GalleryDeeply affected by Donna Haraways writing, New Skin is Mayumi Hosokuras proposition for a new way of thinking about identity, the body and desire. Its origin is one single, large scale digital collage which Hosokura created using clippings from old gay magazines, statues, and found selfies, together with her own photographs specifically choosing to use images of male figures only. Subsequently cut into 12 separate pieces the resulting fragments blur