| YASUFUMI TAKAHASHI ART WORKS |

Injurious Inertia 1, used butcherÕs uniforms, TV, VCR, wooden construction, H330xW220xD220cm, 1998, Southern Alberta Art Gallery / CANADA
The bricks of compressed used clothing embody the psychological repression experienced in daily contemporary life. The enactment of stacking bricks connotes the ceaseless labor expended in the name of Industrial Expansion in Japan. The more one works, the more oppressed and victimized one becomes.