A spotlight shines on a miniature primary school chair. Its steel frame is crumpled like a child¡¯s body cowering in fear. Soon, other chairs of differing sizes come into view, lit by a solitary woman, who crawls among them with a torchlight. She casts their mangled shadows onto a clinical white curtain, creating an eerie symbolic landscape of ¡°uninternalized¡± repression.
¡°Each time I come back to Japan, I feel immense pressure to fit into a mold,¡± says Naoko Tanaka, 42, a Berlin-based Japanese visual and performance artist behind the production, which is titled ¡°Uninternalized (light).¡±
The piece was presented at the Rohm Theatre Kyoto as part of the Kyoto International Arts Festival in October 2017.
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