Cursed in Paradise

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60001/ae.n50.18

Keywords:

Tobinaga, Painting, Politics, Estado Novo, Glitch

Abstract

Rio de Janeiro-born artist Tobinaga is grandson of Japanese immigrants. He incorporates references to tokusatsu series, manga, and advertising and internet iconography into his paintings, all intertwined with a hyper-real society. Through the overlap of individual and collective memories, Tobinaga brings to light sociopolitical aspects of migratory flows that occurred in Brazil throughout the 20th century, blurring the lines between what are normally seen as opposing forces, such as East and West, analog and digital, fiction and reality: a glitch that translates into works that are sharply critical of the hybrid war states that lead us to lethargy.

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Author Biography

Rubens Takamine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

He is an artist, researcher of images and smells, professor, and independent curator. He is a doctoral candidate in communication and culture at PPGCOM-ECO-UFRJ and holds a master's degree in interdisciplinary poetics from PPGAV-EBA-UFRJ. Relationships between art and ecologies inspire his practices, which often emerge from dances with plants, stones, people, clay, and discarded objects. Through traces, he seeks to tell the untold stories of the Asian diasporas by Abya Yala.

References

HAN, Byung-Chul. Agonia do eros. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2017.

KOIKE, Yudi Rafael Lemes. A parábola do progresso. Curadoria: Lisette Lagnado. Organização: André Pitol, Lisette Lagnado, Mariana Delfini, Yudi Rafael. São Paulo: Sesc São Paulo, 2023 (catálogo).

Published

2026-05-11