Diary
PAINTING

Diary

2023

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

333 × 333 mm (13 ⅛ × 13 ⅛ inches)

This work references Titian's Venus of Urbino. The lock and blurred screen appropriate imagery from photographs used to introduce sex workers on Japanese erotic service information websites. The model for Venus of Urbino was a courtesan. In contemporary terms, she would be considered a sex worker. Drawing from this context, Asano enacts an inversion of history.