JUXTAPOZ Magazine – Forty Heritage: Kellen Hatanaka @ The Bows, Calgary
Stolen legacy It is an exhibition of a Canadian Japanese artist Keelin Hatanaka This honors the legacy of his family’s experiences in prison during World War II. The re -creation of the property that has lost this injustice of paper, wires, and Wash tape, Hatanaka reconciles with complex and accurate emotional societies that were displaced through the experience of loss, including anger, uncomfortable and sadness.
The term inheritance is often used in referring to the emotional objects that were passed through families, but Hatanaka expands the idea of inheritance to include passing less desirable ideas, such as shock and pain. By re -creating documented property in the Canadian Japanese detention archives, Hatanaka is able to develop an agency in approaching his family’s legacy, and how he chooses to move the legacy to him.
The stolen legacy brings awareness of the neglected memory of the role of Alberta in prison, as it was a site for many families of the sugar beet farms that were forced to work on. Through the working group, Stolen legacy It calls for emptying the complexities of collective remembrance, for those affected and those who participate more negatively, and ask the public to reconsider our ideas about inheritance, transition and inheritance.
“In 1942, 22,000 Canadians of Japanese were removed from their homes along the British coast of Colombia. With a very short notice of departure, they were only allowed to take bags or two property with them, and left behind a lot of their lives. The traditional Japanese machine, when she was forced to leave her home with my great grandmother.
The statues in this exhibition, a group of stolen heritage, represent the losses that Japanese Canadians suffer from, including possession, property and society. A variety of statues depict the lost elements that carry cultural, cash or emotional value. The concept of inheritance was used to extract parallel between the death of the legacy across family generations and the death of the inherited shock across generations of Japanese Canadians. “ – Kelin Hatanaka
