This installation combines works created through a research workshop in Aomori with folk materials in the collection of the Aomori City Board of Education.
Based on prewar “science textbooks for girls” found in the folk materials, the theme of Japan’s modernization and acceptance of Western learning was established, and these were deciphered from the perspectives of gender and region.
Using Kogin-zashi stitch, a traditional technique of the Tsugaru region, and cross-stitch, a technique of Western embroidery, I wanted to create an opportunity to reconsider how we perceive things and how we express ourselves by comparing words spontaneously born from the land with systematic knowledge brought about by modernization.
photo: Delphine Parodi
photo courtesy: Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Aomori Public University