E'wao Kagoshima: Deconstructed Bodies presents mixed-media drawings and collage works from the late 1970s and early 1980s, made in the years following Kagoshima's move from Tokyo to New York in 1976. Surrealistic imagery inspired by the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism depicts the human body in states of flux — disintegrating, transforming, and reforming into cyborgian articulations. Collages incorporate imagery from vintage gay erotica magazines alongside cut paper and painted fragments, their surfaces cut, unfurled, and peeled back so that pictorial matrix merges with support. The deconstructed body becomes a scaffold for contradiction, mutability, and the experience of existing in a new environment.
