Rose Cassandra

Kimiko Yoshida-through what is called "self-portraits" has refined and amplified a feminist stance of protest, cultivated and distanced from current affairs: against contemporary cliches of seduction, against voluntary servitude of women, against "identity" defined by appurtenances, against the stereotypes of gender and the determinism of heredity.

Yoshida's new series of photographic self-portraits, Paintings refers directly the function of diversion. The simple title diverts both the material reality of the photograph and the formal principles of painting.