{"id":667,"date":"2021-05-12T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=667"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T07:37:59","slug":"one-work-ben-sakoguchis-chinatown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/one-work-ben-sakoguchis-chinatown\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE WORK: BEN SAKOGUCHI\u2019S \u201cCHINATOWN\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scenes of metaphorical and physical assault pulse through\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_ben-sakoguchi\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"ben-sakoguchi\">Ben Sakoguchi<\/a>\u2019s painting\u00a0<em>Chinatown\u00a0<\/em>(2014), as he makes visible the violence Chinese Americans have endured for centuries in the United States. Some of the fifteen panels depict textbook historical events in comic book fashion; others collage contemporary examples of yellowface. Most striking are Sakoguchi\u2019s representations of lesser-known episodes of anti-Chinese fervor. One section toward the upper right corner of\u00a0<em>Chinatown<\/em>\u00a0shows a group of armed white men herding Chinese men aboard the steamship\u00a0<em>Queen of the Pacific<\/em>\u00a0during the Seattle riot of 1886; hundreds of Chinese residents were forcibly expelled. In a compact scene on the opposite side of the same panel, Chinese miners flee during the 1885 Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming\u2014at least twenty-eight were murdered by white miners. Drawing on extensive research, the artist highlights\u00a0the intertwinement of political propaganda, xenophobic legislation, cultural production, and interpersonal conflict. Still, the panels are less a comprehensive history of racial oppression than a reminder of its unmapped expanse.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chinatown<\/em>\u2019s centerpiece pulls away from the height of violence to focus on its disquieting aftermath: Sakoguchi renders the bodies of eighteen men lynched during the Chinese massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles (between seventeen and twenty-one are known to have died).\u00a0The youngest was a teenage boy. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Sakoguchi\u2019s<\/a> other historical panels, the figures are cartoonish, their clothing nondescript; here, in stark detail, we see creased pants, muddied soles, and knotted nooses.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary artists of color have tended to avoid (re)producing\u00a0images of brutalized bodies. Sakoguchi partly shields the suspended cadavers with ornate red-and-yellow screens, but their apertures ultimately accentuate bodily harm. Exhibited at Bel Ami seven years after its making,\u00a0<em>Chinatown<\/em>\u00a0joins an online\u00a0outpouring\u00a0of images of bruised and bloodied Asian Americans, reminding us that anti-Asian violence is not just\u00a0a series of individual acts\u2014and that even images circulated with the intention of making bodily trauma more \u201creal\u201d are often seen through an Othering lens.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOne Work\u201d is a new short-form review format in which writers focus on a single piece on view at a current exhibition.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenes of metaphorical and physical assault pulse through\u00a0Ben Sakoguchi\u2019s painting\u00a0Chinatown\u00a0(2014), as he makes visible the violence Chinese Americans have endured for centuries in the United States. Some of the fifteen panels depict textbook historical events in comic book fashion; others collage contemporary examples of yellowface. 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