YUMMY: English term that means extremely pleasing to the sense of taste.
YAMI: A Japanese term that describes a person or thing to be related to either darkness or evil.
Yummi Yammi is a series of photo collages inspired by the true story of Issey Sagawa, a Japanese man who became a cannibal while living in Paris. K-Narf pushes the limits of how sex is portrayed in art— insisting on creating a jarring dialogue between images and the story behind them.
On June 11, 1981, Issei Sagawa, a 32 year old Japanese student in Paris, invited a young Dutch woman named Renée Hartevelt for dinner at his apartment under the pretense of translating German poetry. After she arrived, he shot her in the back while she was reading. He then began to carry out his plan to consume her flesh.
After two days of eating her various body parts, Sagawa attempted to dump the mutilated body into a lake and was seen in the act. He was later arrested by the French police. His wealthy father provided a top lawyer for his defense and he was able to claim insanity. Sagawa spent a short time in a French mental institution, but was soon extradited to Japan where psychologists all found him to be sane but “evil” and thus it was legally impossible to hold him. As a result, Sagawa checked himself out of the mental institution on August 12, 1986, and has been a free man ever since.
Sagawa now lives in Tokyo and is a minor Japanese celebrity. He is often invited as a guest speaker and he has even appeared in a TV commercial for a Japanese restaurant chain.
About K-narf: Referencing the origins of street art by posting his works on public walls, K-Narf denounces the incoherencies and extravagances of our time. Both conceptual and experimental, his work documents, recycles and collects the “unusual,” bringing it to the forefront and reminding us all that the medium of photography is not limited to truth-seeking, but is also K-Narf’s favorite toy to create, play, and challenge his audience in his own unique way.