Yoshitomo Nara - From The Depth of My Drawer

2005, First edition, FOIL, Japan

Yoshitomo Nara is an artist and photographer from Aomori, Japan. Nara has had nearly 40 solo exhibitions since 1984. His artwork has been housed at the MoMA and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LACMA). His most well-known and repeated subject is a young girl with piercing eyes.

"From the Depth of My Drawer" debuted in October 2004.
The exhibition has started at the Hara Museum which once served as a private residence, followed by the Kanaz Forest of Creation Fukui and the Yonago City Museum of Art. At each site, unique exhibition spaces were originally produced in collaboration with the creative design group graf from Osaka. 
This book introduces not only the exhibited works, but also the appeal of the installation by photo, text and plans of each site, which will surely satisfy the people visited the exhibition as well as who couldn't.

“This exhibition was a way to rethink my present self. I selected work created after the late 80’s, when I began seriously producing, as well as other pieces that might have otherwise been left behind. A variety of myself would be represented. What would this uncover and where would it lead me?” - Yoshitomo Nara