Exhibition Period
November 20 (Thu) - December 7 (Sun), 2025, 12:00-18:00
(During the Gaigosai Festival, Nov 20-24: 10:00-18:00)
Admission: Free
For more Info: https://r-dimension.xsrv.jp/resilient-life/tufs/
◆Gallery tour schedules will be posted on the website as they become available.
The exhibition 'Tales after Forced Eviction: Home, Resilience, Return, and Reconstruction', documents a project in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Nairobi, Kenya, where residents whose houses were forcibly evicted returned to their original land and rebuilt their dwellings. It is a collaborative project involving specialists in art, architecture, political science, and socio-cultural anthropology.
The exhibition comprises three sections: Materiality of Lives, Rebuilding Home and Dignity, and The Scenes of Mukuru. It presents the residents' resilience and spirit of creative reuse while also examining urban land use, poverty, administrative issues, the environment faced by young people, and the challenges faced by families and women straddling rural and urban areas.
In this age of information overload, where events unfolding daily around the world flood into our smartphones and computers via media and social networking services, we may have become overly accustomed to images and photographs. However, in this exhibition, by listening to the narratives of six individuals and viewing alongside them the fragments of objects brought back from the site that once existed within people's living spaces, we hope visitors will gain some sense of Mukuru as the reality, sparks their imagination, and broadens their personal insights into the diverse issues raised. It also seeks to resonate with issues of disaster recovery and regional revitalization in Japan, offering perspectives that encourage reflection on sustainable societies and global human rights challenges.
Project Team Members
Wakana Shiino (Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Yasushi Noguchi (Professor, Department of Interactive Media, Tokyo Polytechnic University)
Saori Imoto (Associate Professor, Department of Architecture and Design, Japan Women's University)
Kithinji Kinyua (Research fellow, African Studies Center,Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Setup team by
Madoka Kikuchi,SHINOHARA Marika Shinohara,and Chengqiu Hong