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Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades in Hong Kong

Yasumasa Morimura, One Hundred M’s Self-Portraits #26, 1993-2000.

West Kowloon Cultural District, 38 Museum Drive, Kowloon

The photographer Yasumasa Morimura was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1951, a culture that was gravitating toward Western values after the American occupation. Cindy Sherman was born in the small town of Huntington, Long Island, in 1954, to strict Episcopalian parents. Worlds apart, both photographers became interested in morphing their appearances to portray multiple identities. Morimura dressed himself up like Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress and pearls; Sherman dressed at one moment like a society woman, then switched to a man with a unibrow. “I didn’t have any interest in traditional art,” Sherman once said. Neither did Morimura. This exhibition brings their two oeuvres together for the first time. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: M+ Hong Kong © Yasumasa Morimura/courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York, and Yoshiko Isshiki Office, Tokyo