Blue Pissoir (Urinal)

Reinterpreting works from the Western art historical canon using costumes, make-up, and in his later work, digital editing, Yasumasa Morimura explores notions of racial and gender identity. Substituting his own body for that of the reference material’s subject, such as in Blue Pissoir, including oftentimes posing in place of a female subject, Morimura draws attention to the way that Asian culture is viewed as feminine by the Western world.