Midori Tsubaki Jun 2026

The film is legendary for being "banned worldwide" at various points, particularly for its graphic depictions of:

The juxtaposition of Midori’s doll-like features against the visceral horrors of the circus creates a sense of profound unease. midori tsubaki

Tsubaki’s choice of materials is never neutral. She deliberately pairs high decay rates (flower petals that brown within days) with low decay rates (rusted iron nails, broken ceramics). In Trace of a Kimono (2022), she stitched actual moth-eaten silk fragments onto a base of galvanized steel mesh. Over the exhibition’s three months, the silk disintegrated entirely, leaving only a ghostly pattern of holes—a “negative photograph” of what was once worn against skin. This process, which she calls nokoru keshiki (remaining landscape), reverses the traditional Japanese kintsugi philosophy: rather than repairing breaks with gold, Tsubaki accelerates absence to reveal structural truth. The film is legendary for being "banned worldwide"

The story follows 12-year-old Midori, a girl whose life collapses after her mother dies of a sudden illness. In Trace of a Kimono (2022), she stitched