Post by Natasha Prehu

What if the awereness question isn’t « Who am I? » but « How many am I? » Japanese artist Kimiko Yoshida migrated to France in 1995, escaping what she called …the fate of Japanese women… Her parents met for the first time on their wedding day — that arranged marriage became the wound her art transforms. I came across her work in « Femmes du XXe Siècle », and I haven’t stopped thinking about it. Not as escapism, but as a mirror: what would it mean to lead from a place of plurality rather than fixity? To treat identity not as a fortress to defend, or as a puzzle of to solve, but as a ceremony to embrace? If you peeled back your layers, what would you find underneath — and would that question even be the right one to ask? In her "Intangible Brides" series, Yoshida imagines famous icons: Lady Di, Marilyn, Angela Davis, Billie Holiday… Same square frame, same monochrome light, no Photoshop — only paint and fabric. Yet each image is different. And more the figure repeats, the more it changes. She calls each portrait « a ceremony of disappearance ». « Identity isn’t asserted; it’s dissolved » There are only infinite layers of me. If I peel them back, like the skin of an onion, what will « lie » beneath? It’s a profound inversion of how we coach leaders. We invite them to find their authentic core. And Yoshida suggests the self isn’t a core to uncover, but a multiplicity to inhabit. Combien suis-je? — How many am I? Transformation, she says, is the ultimate value of art. I’d dare to add, it’s the ultimate value of leadership, too. ⬇️ Here is for you to comment … What would it mean to lead from plurality rather than fixity? #Leadership #Identity #Transformation #WomenInLeadership #ExecutiveCoaching #ArtAndLeadership

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