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På fredag tjuvstartar årets höstprogram i Hallongrottan med en fantastisk fotouställning signerad Yoshihiro Takahashi med vänner.
Welcome to the photo exhibition ”逃亡不能 -You can’t run”.
Opening at 19:00-22:00, 14th(Fri). Open 12:00-17:00 on 15th(Sat) and 16th(Sun).
Free entrance.
By Yoshihiro Takahashi in cooperation with Oda Hodlekve, Johanna Lundqvist and Bitte Andersson
When you meet a new person, is it really possible not to judge him/her by the cover? What does it mean to have a certain ”ethnical appearance”? ”逃亡不能 -You can’t run” is a political photo exhibition based on the daily experiences of Yoshihiro living in Sweden, interacting with people in the street, in the classroom, in the club and anywhere he goes. ”Are you adopted from Korea?”, ”Do your parents own a Chinese restaurant in the city?”.
These implicit/explicit questions he gets when they are yet to know ”who he is”. It shows, for example, when people (un)consciously choose the language when they come up and talk to him for the first time. Explicitly intoducing himself as a Japanese, a country full of stereotypes, gives a different kind of questions. ”What is the best Sushi restaurant in the city?”, ”Why are your people so smiley all the time?”. These floods of unspoken and sometimes outspoken questions go even deeper when sexuality comes into the picture.
This exhibition gives an insight to the eternal questions of what stereotypes really are and what they do to you. The exhibition is also ment to be a social space for sharing daily frustration and making new friends over a cosy cup of tea.
The venue is the basement of a very special bookstore full of creativity, sexuality and hospitality. Everyone is warmly welcome!
Yoshi, Oda, Johanna, Bitte and Hallongrottan
Yoshihiro Takahashi is a Japanese masterstudent/freelance translator/hobby-journalist born in 1986. He moved to Stockholm in 2009 from Osaka, Japan. He studies Gender Studies at Lund University and exploring the LGBT-community in Sweden in his freetime.
