A black Japanese flag with the center dot being an LGBT flag. There is text around it stating the rights they are denied in Japan. These words are like freedom and justice.

Result #1

A black Japanese flag with the center dot being an LGBT flag. There is text around it stating the rights they are denied in Japan. These words are like freedom and justice. To the right of the painting are two images of the opposite gender. In the first, a female figure stands while holding a large wreath of flowers. In the second, a female figure holds a candle; a giant white canvas with a hole in it is behind her. Both these images are drawn in black ink. The letters spelling out the word puh are only partially legible. The meaning of the two images is ambiguous. Is she weeping because she is a sad victim, or perhaps she is really sad? Sad because she is on the other hand also a flower bearer, and thus an icon of happiness. The sun is represented by a giant black snake rising from the top of the painting, and the flag also bears the image of a flag. Here, the rich color on the flag is taken to a higher degree of expression. In the second picture, a smiling woman stands in a ruined hut. One of her legs has grown long; her skirt is torn down to her ankles. But where one leg is taken to be a penis, another has become an open heart. As in his earlier works, here the colors are less dense and richer in color. His interest here is in the surface, not the inside. The open heart symbolizes a true love, a tender and innocent one. His point of view is also more direct and honest. His point of view is a Japanese tradition, and in this respect, his images are as beautiful as their Japanese counterparts. There is no animosity or anger here. The viewer can look at these paintings and feel assured in his or her own self-assurance and security. The two heads that occupy the other paintings are those of Pee-Wees playing in the wind. Pee-Wees plays with mirrors, and a little girl in a sundress looks through them at the birds and the humans that fly through them. The mirrors are meant to produce the conflicting images we crave.

Result #2

Kuroki has created something visually seductive, both in her choice of materials and in her suggestion of messages to be heard. Her art seems to call for a cultural change and reflection on human differences.

Result #3

The flag is a challenge to heteronormative attitudes. One has to imagine these signs, flags and phrases, signified by symbols, as an intellectual blockade against the ideology of this culture.

Result #4

The focus on the colonial past is not actually a commercial gain for the Japanese state. It is a deeply felt appeal to eradicate the ignorance and intolerance that permeates Japanese society and culture. An attempt to bring about the end of the yoke.The most compelling piece is a well-worn but rudimentary anthropological painting of an ancient Japanese statue of a half-drowned woman. It is a gruesome image in its lack of humanity and vulnerability. Its only skin, but the artist seems to consider that human skin is fragile and under threat. Shifting the image as a mask, he activates the nonverbal, nonverbal part of his viewers, who find themselves surrounded by a kind of vengeful, aggressive violence.In the Japanese art context, in which the politics of ethnicity and national identity, such as the yoke, is not necessarily understood to be an empty sign, but an open-ended struggle for identity, the abstract painting forces the viewer to reckon with who he or she is.

Result #5

On the wall of the gallerys back room, we see a picture of a childs toy gun, whose silhouette seems to have been replaced by a sign that states to refrain from shooting. It is obvious that for these people in Japan who have the same freedoms as Westerners, nothing has changed. The world has just gotten a lot smaller, and they want to make it even smaller by making it even stranger. These are not gestures that criticize the world. On the contrary, they attempt to make the world less suspicious, and to ease the burden of being suspicious.