UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Feb 21 - March 15th 2015

JUNKO MIZUNO
AMBROSIAL AFFAIR

Narwhal welcomes Japanese artists Junko Mizuno for Ambrosial Affair, her third Canadian exhibition. As the second body of work in her Food Obsession series, Mizuno takes us through a personal, psychedelic journey through delightfully dark food fetishes from ornate egg cracking sirens to erotic pigs pouring bacon and a sadistically delicious ramen eatery.

With a decorative graphic sensibility that evokes both American and Japanese pop culture, Mizuno combines cuteness, gore and eroticism within an oeuvre that includes comics, painting, drawings, animation and toys. Influenced by vintage shojo manga, folktales, horror and pop art, Mizuno creates fairy tales where erotically adorable pin-ups prance naively through imagined worlds, battling and cohabiting with the dark energy that surrounds them. With realized sexuality, hunger and violence, Mizuno’s girls combat fatal relationships with desires and demons. Playing off our fascination with the cute and the macabre, strong-willed vixens flaunt their charms, and fight for their beliefs, misfit protagonists for the modern day woman.

Opening Reception:
Saturday February 21st from 3-6pm
Narwhal, 2104 Dundas St West
Free to attend

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