2021 – “Yellow Peril and later-1” 100×70cm, Archival pigment print
2021 – “Yellow Peril and later-2” 100×70cm, Archival pigment print
2021 – “Yellow Peril and later-3” 100×70cm, Archival pigment print
2021 – “Yellow Peril and later-4” 100×70cm, Archival pigment print
These photographic works are based on research into the history of the racial concept of the Yellow Race as it was established in Europe in the 18th century, and the Yellow Peril, a theory of the Asian threat that emerged in the West in the late 19th century. In Germany, where I lived, there was a great deal of discrimination against Asians immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic, which I also witnessed, and I became interested in the history of discrimination against Asians in European society afterward, which is why I began work on these photographic works.
この写真作品は、18世紀にヨーロッパで確立された「黄色人種」という人種概念の歴史 と、19世紀後半に欧米で台頭したアジア脅威論「黄禍論」のリサーチをもとに制作しまし た。私が住んでいたドイツでは、COVID-19のパンデミック直後からアジア系への差別が 多発し、その後私はヨーロッパ社会におけるアジア人差別の歴史に興味を持ち、この映像 作品の制作に取りかかりました。