Sayako Hiroi is a painter born and grew up in Tokyo, Japan, based in Boston, the U.S.
She tries to capture depression and suppression muted by modern society with material wealth through the breathless experience of living in Tokyo, Japan as a student, employee, and female required "being good" by tacit morals.
Also, She is trying to deconstruct two types of invisible dualities in modern society.
The one is between Western and Japanese society, which stands out between stereotypical images of Japonisme in the Western context and a blind appreciation and reproduction of it by Japan — repeated cliched images of Japonisme such as Ukiyo-e, Kabuki, Kimono, Neo-Tokyo, the bias of sex workers in East Asia and yellow fever guys, anime/manga culture valued by white people and Japanese relying blindly on the assessment.
The second is man
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