"The tribute to the Sanrizuka struggle is not a political act, in fact, I think that inside the images and the stories that I could find, there is a lot of the Japanese culture. I’ve been so fascinated by the aesthetics of banners and slogans, the discipline and dignity of the protesters that have been transformed into a sort of army with very precise characteristics. So I decided to use the symbol of the Sanrizuka struggle (three disks in sequence) and to combine it with the flag of Japan, using the result as a triple rising sun behind a steel tower, very significative in the construction of the airport where the struggle is still ongoing."

Tommaso Arnaldi (1993) is a Rome based Director, Art Director and Video-Artist. He started his career in the famous Italian Trap group Dark Polo Gang in the role of Creative Director, Graphic Designer and Videomaker. From 2021 with Francesca Pionati he started an artistic duo project, VEGA, that works with many Italian institutions. Their practice starts from discovering hidden stories in the sub-cultural panorama of the last century, working with archive materials their research tries to bring in the contemporary what is hidden by the dialectic of the mainstream, using video deconstruction, performance and speculative experiments.