Meiro Koizumi

Portrait of a failed silence

Meiro Koizumi's practice oscillates between the comical, the cruel and the therapeutic. In so doing, it investigates and problematizes the repressed affective charges in Japanese social and cultural conventions through performance-based exercises, sometimes designed as live mises-en-scene, and others as video installations. Through an exploration of masculine and femenine sexuality, the historical phenomenon of the kamikaze, and social interaction in public spaces, Koizumi reveals the structures by which subjectivity is constructed in Japanese culture.