Forgiveness: A Bridge Between Nations
AN ART EXHIBIT by TAKASHI T. TANEMORI
April 24 – October 31, 2015

Curated by Takashi Tanemori and Elizabeth Weinberg, Silkworm Peace Institute, 2020 Durant Avenue, Suite 203, Berkeley CA 94704
Sponsored by National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS)
Funded in part by the San Francisco Grants for the Arts

Silkworm Peace-Kaiko Heiwa Institute announces an art exhibition by Hiroshima survivor Takashi T. Tanemori. The exhibit includes a selection of art works that examine the historical and unique personal perspective of a Hiroshima survivor, on the diplomatic and international relations between countries the United States and Japan, nations that have been at war and peace in the past two centuries. The focus is forgiveness as the precursor to peace and the final solution to human conflict.

The works are a reflection of the artist’s personal experience and forty year journey from seeking revenge to realizing forgiveness. They represent historical research and personal interpretation, and reflect the artist’s process and universal message pertaining to trauma, recovery, reconciliation, and healing through time, culminating in peace through forgiveness.

The exhibition hosted by the National Japanese American Historical Society at the location of the MIS Historical Learning Center is historically relevant during this 70th Anniversary year since the atomic bombs. NJAHS’ dedication to depicting the historical perspectives and experiences of Japanese-Americans and addressing the struggles of Japanese-American communities since the Second World War, forges a bridge to the struggles of peoples of Japanese descent, and reinforces the dedicated, essential need for cultural preservation hand in hand with greater universal tolerance and understanding.