Takashima Megumi | "For a Placard" (Part 2)
This exhibition uses diverse works resisting patriarchy and norms to question structures of oppression from an intersectional perspective.Summary
This article reviews the second part of the exhibition "For a Placard," tracing the discussion from the works of Tabe and Yazawa toward objections against patriarchy and homosocial communities. Yuki Iiyama's work explores the fictional nature of "home" and "family" through her sister's hallucinations, while Shingo Kanagawa's photography presents a lifestyle unbound by marriage or kinship through shared living. Furthermore, Rieko Shiga's work questions the structure of exploitation in post-Great East Japan Earthquake reconstruction, and Iiyama's "In-Mates" depicts the divided identity and yearning for solidarity of Zainichi Korean men through multilingual narration and references to the Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition design intentionally mixes the soundscapes of the works to layer questions about what has been marginalized and made invisible by state power and norms, concluding that the entire exhibition functions as "another placard" resisting structures of oppression.
(Source：artscape)