Imperial Portrait or His Real Shadow, 2022
photographed charcoal drawing printed on inkjet paper, gold leaf passe-partout
frame: 49 x 34 cm
passepartout: 48 x 32.5 cm
image: 9.5 × 7.5 c
passepartout: 48 x 32.5 cm
image: 9.5 × 7.5 c
Edition of 20
By constitution, the Emperor of Japan is a symbol of the State. Biologically, of course he is a human being, yet, in the social space, his body is constrained for this big role given to him. Koizumi imagines him photographed in a intimate moment, almost disheveled, challenging his symbolic authority.
