Invisible Social Ladder

The Black Lives Matter movement has been a big social movement globally. In this context, Masaaki has created a work that represents his reality of living in Europe as an Asian. The artwork illustrates an invisible hierarchy in European societies in which Asians are marginalized and which is not even well discussed in the global context of the subject of black lives. The main colors of the artwork represent different races and the red stripe is a representation of blood that delivers a message "no matter how different we look, we all have the same color of blood".