08/03/2024
Though there is no program, our values stand strong and proud (at least until 31.3.24) ❤️🔥we wish you a powerful International Women's Day 🌹🌹🌹
❤️🔥Looking back at one of our last exhibitions ...and they lived... we remind ourselves of the empowering, feminist, beautiful film by:
Wendelien van Oldenborgh
🤍of girls 🤍
//single-channel film installation with subtitles, 40’, 2022//
"...is set in the Tokyo house designed and lived in by Fumiko Hayashi, a Japanese writer, in the first half of the 20th century. Hayashi made her name as the author of semi-autobiographical novels and poetry, in which she openly expressed a sense
of class solidarity and sexual desire. During the wars, she was sent by the Imperial Army and the Japanese newspapers she was working for, to occupied territories and colonized lands, among them Indonesia..."
"...The other protagonist is Yuriko Miyamoto, also a writer, whose life is tied to Hayashi not only by political convictions but also by a seemingly random fact
that they both died in the same year, 1951. Miyamoto
is remembered for the political rigor of her writing, with which she pursued ideas of social equality and women’s liberation. Born into a privileged background, she used the resources at hand to travel extensively, was married twice, and lived in a long, openly le***an relationship. Stories of these women are narrated and discussed by an intergenerational group of people
in Tokyo, contextualizing their life, work, legacy, and public memory in the light of today’s struggles around gender, politics and love..."
-excerpts from the curatorial text, Jen Kratochvil
🪄...and they lived... was on view until 14/02/24 and was curated by Jen Kratochvil / Tjaša Pogačar / Jelisaveta Rapaić
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