Haruko Sasakawa “Recollection: The Plywood Fish”

Yoshimi Arts

poster for Haruko Sasakawa “Recollection: The Plywood Fish”

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Haruko Sasakawa is interested in how people are influenced by the media. In her 2016 Ph.D. thesis “The War Inside the Media – From War Images to Games” and in the December 2016 group show “War Painting Studies” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, she examined how art and design have been used as media during times of war.

This exhibition reconstructs Sasakawa’s work presented at the 2015 Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Exhibition. While researching her grandfather’s experiences as a kamikaze officer, she traveled to the place he was supposed to have returned home to and viewed weapons and other wartime artifacts. She observed that what her grandfather called “human torpedos” were made of plywood rather than iron.Haruko Sasakawa has been working with social issues in her work from an interest in how people are influenced by the media. Through her doctoral disseration, “War as seen in media—From War Painting To Video Games,” (2016) and the group exhibition “SENSOU-GA STUDIES (War Painting Studies)” that she organized in December 2015 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, she has closely examined how art and design were utilized as media during war times.
For this exhibition, we will be exhibiting the work she presented for her doctoral assessment at Tokyo Univeristy of the Arts in 2015. Based on her grandfather’s experience and testimony when he was assinged to be part of the suicide squad for the army, she visited the actual spot where her grandfather would have belonged, and consulted various documents to investigate the weapons he had seen. The human torpedo, according to her grandfather, was made of plywood, not iron plates. The work will be reconstructed for the exhibition.

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from August 25, 2017 to September 17, 2017
Closed on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Haruko Sasakawa

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