Postdoctoral Writing Fellow, Haverford College
Curator of The Wall in Our Heads: American Artists and the Berlin Wall
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery (October 23-December 13, 2015)

“You Are Entering the American Sector”: Shinkichi Tajiri, Sculpture in Exile, and the Reconstruction of the Berlin Wall

In conjunction with The Wall In Our Heads exhibition at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, curator Paul M. Farber will discuss the work of Japanese-American sculptor Shinkichi Tajiri, a professor at the Hochschule der Künste in West Berlin in 60s and 70s, who produced over 500 photographic images of the Wall. Living in exile from the United States after his family was interned during World War II, Tajiri experienced the effects of U.S. power and presence in the divided city and wrestled with the evolution of the Wall’s physical and social landscapes.