The photographs in Takashi Yasumura’s series, Domestic Scandals, were taken in his parents’ middle- class home in Japan over the course of seven years. Using a four-by-five-inch camera, the artist focuses on objects as found in the home’s interior, where traditional Japanese decorations and objects have been replaced by or are juxtaposed with modern, plastic and mass-produced goods. The color-saturated photographs of everyday items and backgrounds—a hot pink stapler against cool tiled walls, a boom box placed near sliding doors, and a pair of Spiderman slippers on a linoleum-covered floor—are void of the sentimentality thought to exist within the domestic realm.

With humor and irony, Mr. Yasumura documents the paradoxical beauty found in the meeting of traditional and modern objects. Yasumura’s sleek 37×48-inch C-prints reflect the increasing shift within Japanese society from long-standing cultural values and practices to an imagined Westernized ideal of progress and modernity.