Menko Boys fantasy america depicts the playfulness of youth

depicts the playfulness of youth against the capricious landscape of the American West

empty frames and fulfilling time

Tillmans is the recipient of the Turner Prize (2000) and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2015)

Motors renders the dirty boat engines as soft and abstract sculptures

Menko Boys fantasy america depicts the playfulness of youthIn 1868, Japan entered the Meiji era, and moved from a policy of cultural isolationism to a new engagement with Western commerce and culture. Over the century and a half since, the political relationships between Japan and the Western powers have veered from mutual admiration through to military wars, trade wars, ridicule, racism and respect. Whatever the official opinion of Japan was at a given moment, right thinking adults in Europe and the USA have