One of the last chances to enjoy an art venue that is among Tokyo’s most pleasant: the Hara Museum, which occupies a distinguished European-style former residence dating back to the 1930s, is set to close at the end of this year. Artist Yasumasa Morimura has, as this show documents, spent the past three decades using photography, film and performance to retrieve his ‘self’ from layers of accumulated national, cultural and personal history. Across work sure to resonate with the Instagram generation, for whom every selfie involves a degree of ‘performance’, Morimura shows himself in the guise of figures as diverse as Marilyn Monroe and infamous author Yukio Mishima: the latter is depicted staging his failed 1970 coup d'état just before committing ritual suicide.
Une moderne Olympia, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. © Yasumasa Morimura 
Mishima, 1970. 2006. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. © Yasumasa Morimura 
Self-Portrait (Actress) / Marilyn at Tokyo University, Komaba, 1995–2008. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. © Yasumasa Morimura
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- Event website:
- www.haramuseum.or.jp/en/hara/exhibition/737/
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- Price:
- ¥1,100, university and high school students ¥700, junior high school and primary school students ¥500
- Opening hours:
- 11am-5pm (last entry 4.30pm), Wed until 8pm (7.30pm), closed Mon (except Feb 24) and Feb 25
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