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22/5/2002

Bill Barrette

Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia

Second-floor Galleries
Encounters: Daily Life at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, 1945-52
An Installation by Bill Barrette

Installation by artist/guest curator Bill Barrette examining, from multiple perspectives, questions of justice, truth, and the role of photography in constructing historical narratives relating to the Tokyo

War Crimes Trials and everyday life inside Sugamo Prison from 1945 to 1952. Barrette's installation/exhibition includes intimate, exquisitely crafted objects made from recycled materials by Japanese prisoners, amateur photographs taken by American G.I. prison guards, official, archival photographs and other documents of condemned Japanese prisoners, including former General Hideki Tojo, Premier of Japan during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and drawings of everyday life inside the prison by Japanese prisoners which were given to American prison guards, among other artifacts culled by Barrette from U.S. veterans, the National Archives, and his own cousin, a former Sugamo prison guard.

May 22 to July 7:
First Floor (Gallery A) and Third Floor Gallery
Martin Bromirski: anaba

First Floor (Gallery B)
Lauren Olitski: January Heat - Recent Paintings

Image: Bill Barrette

Philadelphia Art Alliance
251 South 18th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103-6168
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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