Maya Fuji
Double Belonging
2024
Acrylic, silver and gold leaf on canvas
Courtesy the artist and Charlie James Gallery

This work is on loan for the exhibition, Living Here, at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, June 20 - December 20, 2025

Double Belonging is inspired by fragments of the wooden Buddhist altar that she brought from her late grandmother’s house in Kanazawa to her home in the United States. By replacing the original picture of Buddhist monks with a group of her women holding up a Kaga Hachiman Okiagari—a figure from Japan’s other official religion, Shintoism—Fuji shows us that a whole, complete form can be made up of things that espouse doubleness, and that have “shifted and morphed.”