Artists expand on Asawa’s intention of returning humanity to a community from which it was stripped
Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the United States’ Japanese population to be sent to internment camps for the duration of the country’s involvement in the Second World War.
The university’s Fine Arts Gallery’s latest exhibition, “Reflecting on Ruth Asawa and the Garden of Remembrance,” features five contemporary Japanese American artists who honor Asawa’s work and continue the artistic examination of the intergenerational legacy of Japanese internment. Kitagaki also includes landscape photographs shot at Topaz Incarceration Center in Delta, Utah — now a national park — and a wooden chair his grandfather crafted from scrap lumber used in building the camp. The empty landscapes and sculptures evoke the absence and overbearing presence of incarceration in national history.
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TT Takemoto presents two experimental videos. The seven-minute “On the Line” pairs archival footage with video of Takemoto performing naginata, a sword-based martial art, in remembrance of Isa Shimoda, a gender-nonconforming Japanese immigrant who owned a restaurant on the docks of San Diego in the 1930s. The three-minute “Untitled ” features footage of abstract wire forms reminiscent of netting or fish, both a further homage to Shimoda and Asawa.
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