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Artist/Maker
Miki Soejima
(Japanese, born 1980)
Publisher
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Date2014 (printed 2017)
MediumArchival inkjet print
DimensionsImage: 10 × 7 7/16 in. (25.4 × 18.9 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Edward W. Root Class of 1905 Memorial Art Purchase Fund
Object number2017.10.3
Not on view
DescriptionLondon-based artist Miki Soejima walks the line between fact and fiction, uncovering photography’s inherent artifice and truths. Her latest project, The Passenger’s Present, combines street photographs from Japan with constructed still life images, including her print, Still Life 04. Her images allude to narratives, histories, and myths beneath Japanese society’s surface. Some images include small red spheres; these are Atomic FireBalls, the American candy named after the atomic bomb. “I think my core interest lies in how narrative context can shape our way of seeing the world and affect how we act,” she says. (SOURCE: Light Work, Syracuse, NY)
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Provenance
2017: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Light Work, Syracuse, NY.
Signature
Signed "Miki Soejima" verso lower right in pencil.
Inscribed
"10/50" verso lower right in pencil.
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