Censorship exhibits more than twenty video works that navigate the sea of censorship. The image of censorship that these artworks constitute all together is extensive, variegated, and highly charged with gravity that the reality of different localities in Asia generates. On the one hand, it can be an issue that is too huge for an individual to cope with. For example, the participating works from Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam refer to the censorship policies by the national authorities. The works from India represent the religion that holds sway over its society with immense power and the agony of individuals exposed to potential censorship. The participating works from Japan reflect on the recent outbreak of Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. On the other hand, this exhibition also introduces many other works that approach in earnest the problem of self-censorship. These pieces shed light on the fear of individuals about speaking out their opinions in public, difficult situations that promote such fear, and reflection on the possibility that we ourselves may have taken part in any sort of censorship. Despite such a broad spectrum of portraying the topic, there is one common characteristic of censorship, which all participating works in the exhibition share. The artworks presented here do not see censorship as solely a social concept or a political issue, but strive to address the existence of individuals, which is impossible to be diluted, under the situations of censorship. 

Art does not exist to condemn censorship as evil. The judicatory, the political, and journalism will make a better job of judging virtue from vice, and this may result in yet another promotion of censorship that asserts a new set of regulation. On the contrary, the perspective of art is not definitive as such. Instead of making judgmental remarks on censorship from an objective standpoint, art keeps producing reports on individuals situated in specific situations. For them to escape from the lack of freedom has colossal urgency and importance, not to reconfirm the fault of censorship. This, however, is an aim that leads us to a long winding road to be achieved. The artworks participating in this exhibition serve as conduits that carry endless questions that slip through our fingers in the reality full of prejudices, rather than suggesting correct answers to them. Censorship invites viewers to the sea of censorship, where the sky is dark, the waves are rough, and the stars are flickering only from far away.