I want you to imagine. I am standing in front of you and I am present in your mind as a ‘petite Asian woman’.
When I speak, you hear the sound of a ‘non-English accent with few vowels’. And so, before you know it, you have already formed an expectation of who I am.
This categorisation takes place without the consent of the categoriser. This is exactly what it means to unconsciously direct a violent gaze at someone.
There is silence in the exhibition space. Suddenly, however, the silence is broken and large human faces appear and begin to speak in their own languages. The different languages blend together and we are confused, unable to understand the dialogue. What we should be aware of is that only the words of people whose appearance we are accustomed to hearing and seeing are entering our minds. Both the accuracy of our ‘predictions’ and the type and number of symbols we can pick up depend largely on our experience and prejudices.
But the truth is that we all speak exactly the same lines, just in different languages and with different speakers. We want people to think about who these lines belong to.

Our ‘predictions’ cannot be stopped.　　
Hikaru Kawai