Self-Portrait of Other

The work of Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida (Yaizu, Shizuoka, 1973? Tokyo, 2005) gives the experience of the contemporary subject a face as it explores the uncertainty and desolation of Japanese society, drastically altered by the technological advances and successive crises that have affected economies and politics the world over. More specifically, Ishida portrays, with descriptive precision, the mood of his generation, defined by the bursting bubble of finance and real estate and the mass lay-offs that plunged the country into a deep recession in 1991.00Exhibition: Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (12.04.-08.09.2019).