After “Freedom of Expression?”
Exhibition title design, woodcut by Misako Ichimura, from the exhibition poster from 2015
This may seem like a little exhibition inside an exhibition. For one reason or another, due to censorship or self-censorship, most works presented here were not exhibited in the past in Japan. Although the reason for their removal varies, it shows that there is no simple dynamic in regard to "freedom of expression (speech)."
"freedom of expression" is one of the essential ideas in democracy and basic human rights. However, nowadays freedom of expression which originally means the right to criticize authorities is a subject not only limited to policy-makers. With "freedom of expression" now also regulated to some extent when it may violate the human rights of others.
The exhibition provides you with information on who regulated these works, through which criteria and how, along with the background to each work, such works were censored.
Map
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art Gallery (8F)
Address
1-13-2 Higashisakura,Higashi-ku, Nagoya
461-8525 JAPAN
Open
(Fri -20:00)
Admission until
30 minutes
before closing
Closed
Barrier free
Access
・5 minutes on foot from Sakae-Machi Station on the Meitetsu Seto Line.