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The image of a girl, intention that is not a Japanese grenade The key to understanding is "folk art"

2019-10-10T09:14:20.991Z


The Aichi Triennale's “Expression Inconvenient Exhibition, then” exhibition was resumed on the 8th. The “girl of peace” image by Korean sculptors and wife who received many threats and complaints before the cancellation. The couple said, “People…


The Aichi Triennale's “Expression Inconvenient Exhibition, then” exhibition was resumed on the 8th. The “girl of peace” image by Korean sculptors and wife who received many threats and complaints before the cancellation. The couple are writers of the genre of “popular art” that was once repressed in Korea. We asked Mika Furukawa (a part-time lecturer at a women's art university) who studies Korean art culture about the background of the girl image.

Popular art and girl statue

--You seem to be from the genre of “popular art”. This is a word you don't hear much in Japan, but will it change your view of the girl image?

“Popular art is art born in response to the democratization movement that fights against the military dictatorship. Based on this, for the creator of the girl statue, the nation of Korea is a subject of resistance rather than a subject of self-stratification. `` The couple are reflecting on the civilian genocide that the Korean army performed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, making a mourning statue, and not moving in `` anti-Japan '' or `` nationalism. ''

――In Japan, some people feel rebellion when they feel that the Korean national policy and the “girl image” are united together to “defend” Japan.

“The girl was a former comfort woman ...

Source: asahi

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