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Miwa Yanagi
RAT HOLE GALLERY
Last year was Miwa Yanagi's annus mirabilis - the year of three solo exhibitions that included the installation Windswept Women: The Old Girls' Troupe, 2009, at the Japanese Pavilion of the Fifty-third Venice Biennale. This new show combines several photographs from the "Fairy Tales" series, 2004-2006, and a brand-new video, Lullaby, 2010. The artist's trademark games of scale, which were also important to her Biennale installation, are in evidence here; only now, instead of confronting viewers with giant keepsake frames holding life-size portraits of scantily clad amazons, Yanagi has contained the action within the works themselves.
Lullaby is set within an improbable space in which a miniature armchair and door coexist with normal-size floorboards. The artist's interest in binary elements extends to the work's tempo - short bursts of action are interspersed with slower segments, the contrast...