How the artist explores real-world suffering through mediated artifice There’s an elysian quality to the gardens surrounding the Shiga Museum of Art. The air is crisp, the brook clear, the trees bare yet resplendent in the winter sun. This is a kind of Eden one dreams of; it is not the version that artist Sasaoka Yuriko offers inside the museum. Sasaoka Yuriko’s Paradise Dungeon opens with a grimace. In the two-second looped video Untitled (2011…
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