Yonemoto’s use of appropriation continues in the photographic series Beyond South: Vietnam (Caravaggio) (2010). The scene loops, moving image within moving image, eliciting a mute response from the layers of viewers, as the highly charged image of political protest loses its power through mediated repetition. In Yonemoto’s scene, the female protagonist is replaced by Asian men, who watch television footage from a 1963 broadcast of a Buddhist monk practicing self-immolation. The video Before I Close My Eyes (2010) appropriates and re-casts a pivotal scene from Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film Persona, reconfiguring its social and political framework. On view are a recent video projection and a series of photographs, included in Yonemoto’s 2010 solo exhibition at the St. Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Bruce Yonemoto (b.
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