Ayano Hattori

Yellow Adorment (1), Nectar, Skin Fallen like Fabric, The Quivered, and Yellow Trauma: The Possibility of a New Aesthetic from Yellow Trauma

HD video and text

5’36’’(video)

Yellow Trauma delineates the contemporary experience of being Asian in the current world through the languages of the audio, visual and text. This tripartite mode of embodiment evokes silence as the silenced state of the disempowered, politicises gaze as the politics and a hidden location of power, and aestheticises the optical recognition of colour to a racialised colour scheme. Embodying the aesthetic state of yellow women itself, Yellow Adornment (1) transmutes the white cube of a gallery space into a white space, a sociopolitical and hegemonial space.

Ayano is an artist and the founder of AH+, a de-centring project and residency for collective research. My PhD degree was awarded from Kingston University, UK, with the thesis titled You Saw Nothing: Sight, Digital Video, Post-3.11 Japan. Embodied in multi-disciplinary fields, my works constitute a tripartite location of research, aesthetics and activism. Her research areas are located within the modern constructions of power both in the sociological realms of centre–periphery relations, race, gender and nation and in the aesthetic realms of the camera and representation. She is also an educator, teaching Photography at Nagaoka Institute of Design, Japan.