Join Culture Club and East Window for an exclusive tour of Effigy 1462, a powerful four-year durational artwork by Yumi Janairo Roth, confronting censorship and the bureaucracy of control.

About the Exhibition

The piece consists of an AmazonBasics paper shredder and a stack of 1,462 posters, one for each day of a four-year presidential term. Soon after January 20, 2025, federal employees reported that seemingly innocuous words in government contracts and grants were being flagged for review under a flurry of new executive orders. Phrases like “accessible,” “climate,” “female,” “gender,” “pollution,” and “woman” could trigger a project being defunded or a report erased from public databases. These precise banned words are featured across the 1,462 posters, printed in the distinct font of the "MAGA" logo.

A Catalyst for Reflection: By requiring the daily removal and shredding of a single poster, Effigy 1462 serves as both a cathartic instrument, acting as a physical, ticking clock that measures a presidential term, and a poignant reminder of the daily vigilance required to protect creative expression, scientific research, and basic human rights from ongoing assaults.