Chikako Yamashiro engages with political and social histoires of Okinawa to create haunting works drawing on oral accounts. Her work reveals lesser-known aspects of Okinawa’s contemporary reality, while questioning dominant historical accounts of the Japanese and American occupation of the islands. The site of fierce battles between the US and Japan at the end of World War II, Okinawa still has a high concentration of American military bases, occupying around twenty percent of the land, despite the wishes of many native Okinawans. Yamashiro’s work spans performance, filmmaking, and photography, employing bodies as vehicles through which to carry marginalized Okinawan stories through uniquely poetic imaginings.