{"product_id":"i-am-here","title":"I am here","description":"\u003cp\u003eSaki Otsuka’s “I Am Here” is self-assertion, self-expression, self-emancipation. Featuring works created in the past ten years, Saki Otsuka explores and utilizes her own body, her own image in a series of photo paintings—photographic self-portraits (both nude and non-nude) that the artist then painted over. In some works the paint acts like an editing brush that hides or alters Otsuka’s original image, other times the paint seems to be a natural part of her world; image and self-image in an intricate interplay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As a child, this reality felt hopeless to me. Am I a slave to the male gender for life? Why don’t I have freedom? Why do women put up with such treatment?\u003cbr\u003eI came to feel despair at being born a woman. My nudity is an expression of frustration and anger.”\u003cbr\u003e― from Saki Otsuka’s afterword (included in Japanese \u0026amp; English)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Libro Arte, Japan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56496335749499,"sku":"iamhere","price":33.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1341\/7181\/files\/Screenshot2026-10-08at16.44.46_34d87d4f-5219-4489-9a2b-655752ff4463.png?v=1791471315","url":"https:\/\/choisi.info\/products\/i-am-here","provider":"Artphilein Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}