How to tell a story of my father is a project that Keiko Sato started in 2001 while staying in New York where she witnessed the September 11 terror attacks. The suicide commandos who flew into the Twin Towers, utterly destroying these icons of the Western world, reminded Sato of her own father, a Japanese kamikaze pilot who survived the Second World War. The project ultimately became the basis of an 8-year work in progress which has now found its final form in the book How to tell a story of my father, a remarkable document integrating texts, interviews and visual material  by Sato herself. The project attempts to reveal the imprint of war on a society, an individual, memory and later generations.

The collages, drawings and installation in this exhibition reflect this. With extraordinary ‘beauty', text fragments and photos of attacks and war reports from newspapers and books from past and present are cut up, shredded and reorganized. The viewer is invited to experience a spectrum of emotions from revulsion to astonishment and is compelled to embark upon a journey through the labyrinth of meanings these images can have.