Ken Okiishi’s most recent moving-image work is an engrossing take on the studio portrait. In tasking his real-life fitness coach with restaging social media photographs in reverse order—an embodiment of the social feed, half archive, half look book—the artist plays with notions of identity at the center of contemporary visual culture.
Ken Okiishi
Director
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Public Speaking70%
McQueen74%
The Class of ‘9271%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Love, Antosha74%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Above Majestic73%
Nude93%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Sherman's March67%
Extremis69%
Directed by John Ford70%
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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Wick Is Pain74%
My Mom Jayne80%
A Plastic Ocean75%
