Miwa Yanagi was born in the city of Kobe, in Japan and she completed her postgrade studies in the University of Art of Kyoto, where she lives. She is one of the most important japanese photographers. She has made worthy exhibitions in the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin or the Marugame Museum, in Japan. After having made some performances, videos and his well known photographic series Elevator Girls, it is outstanding her work of 1999, a serie of photographies named My Grandmothers, in which the japanese artist transforms digitally photographies of models, in order to place them in a future imagined by themselves, 50 years from now. Her most recent series is "Fairy Tale", shown in Arco’05. In words of Yuka Uematsu, Curator of Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art: "The new Yanagi’s series, Fairy Tale, perhaps represents a new vector of endeavor that has emerged from the intersection of "Elevator Girls" with her two series portraying aged women, "My Grandmothers" and "Grandaughters". Taking suggestion from stories such as "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Innocent Erendira", Yanagi-talking suggestion from story scenes in which a girl appears with an old woman has placed small girls in a secret chamber, where they transform back and forth between old age and youth, thus beguiling the viewer. For certain, portions of their bodies do appear to phisically age, but is this real? Or is it an expression of girlhood in an old woman? This is likely Yanagi’s exploration into the Darkness of Girlhood. Her "Untitled I" and "Untitled II" are perhaps also what is for Yanagi works of the self-portrait type. The closed space of a tent – an image suggesting a Mexican fortuneteller’s tent. Yet, this space filled with a sense of isolation is also the space of the elevator, sealed in all directions, where the "Elevator Girls" work and what for Yanagi constitutes her "primal scenery". In this new work, in other words, Yanagi has undertaken a journey of potraying her own "primal scenary". Viewing them in such ways, we find that many of Yanagi’s works deal with extremely personal themes: personal landscapes and personal ways of aging, as well as Yanagi’s own primal scenary. Each series of works, in other words, has not come into existence separately, unrelated to the others. Rather, each has been created so as to give visualization to Yanagi’s desire, while maintaining a flexible connection with the others, with Miwa Yanagi as its core element. What this approach to art production reveals to us is the figure of Yanagi in search of herself as she engages in these works. For Yanagi, the creation of these works perhaps constitutes a journey in search of herself. At times she will borrow the energy of others, but she will steadfastly continue this manner of work that examines self. Like MIWA of "My grandmothers", she has undertaken a journey that will continue to the ends if the earth."