Hirosaki, Aomori Pref. \u2013 Sachiko Kazama wants to tell you a dark fairy tale about Japan\u2019s relentless modernization. This story has knights, robots, nuclear warships and flourishes of opera and classical literature. And it doesn\u2019t end well.<\/p>\n
An unflinching satirist, Kazama has made a name for herself delivering sharp political messages through her art. In 2018, for instance, amid excitement for the 2020 Tokyo Games, she made a dystopian woodcut print about the Olympics with fascist iconography and images of state violence, including uniformed soldiers marching and people being bulldozed off a highway \u2014 a reference to the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics that saw homeless people relocated and working-class neighborhoods eradicated.<\/p>\n
That gigantic masterpiece, titled \u201cDyslympics 2680<\/a>,\u201d is among more than 60 works including new and site-specific pieces currently on display at the Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art in Aomori Prefecture, part of \u201cKazama Sachiko: Clairvoyance in a 9 m\u00b2 room<\/a>,\u201d a retrospective surveying her nearly four-decade career. The exhibition runs until Nov. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hirosaki, Aomori Pref. \u2013 Sachiko Kazama wants to tell you a dark fairy tale about Japan\u2019s relentless modernization.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,15941,21816,369545,19029],"class_list":["post-780773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibitions","tag-museums","tag-sachiko-kazama","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}