Zeit Foto Salone
Closes Dec. 17

Ryoko Suzuki is one of the few Japanese artists now making visually bold gender critiques. In 2007, her work was recognized through its inclusion in a major international survey, "Global Feminisms" at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. Since then, Suzuki has focused her artistic interests on gender and photography, with one interesting photo-series after the other.

Overall, Suzuki is an artist concerned with the homogenized standards of beauty on display in mainstream visual culture. Her best-known works, the "Anikora" series, are a set of photographs that awkwardly combine the artist's face with the CG bodies of anime-style super-girls. The self-portraits approach the issue of how women and girls are represented in society and the media in a very personal way: She quite literally compares her real self to cartoon sex objects of contemporary popular culture — and in doing so reveals the comical differences between them.