Profile from Mori Art Museum and Moderna Museet
Ozawa Tsuyoshi has revolutionized the Japanese art scene and established an international reputation with satirical works that reinvent notions of creativity and community...Ozawa has also worked on more large-scale projects, such as the Museum of Soy Sauce Art, a humorous take on Japanese art history...One of Ozawa's latest projects, Vegetable Weapon (2003), consists of photographs of people holding models of weapons made of vegetables. He created the work by asking people to prepare the most common dish from the region where they live. He then assembled the ingredients to resemble weapons and photographed the people together with the weapons. This is a game with a serious underlying message about how differences in (food) culture can turn to weapons in our hands.
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