Shimabuku

Necklace: Carrying Stones up the Mountain, 2021

digital inkjet print on hahnemühle photo rag (308 g/m2), mounted on aluminium, framed + framed text necklace: carrying stones up the mountain 2021 kunisaki peninsula culture tourism promotion project mt. gion, kunisaki, oita the kunisaki peninsula, which protrudes into the sea like a parabolic antenna, has historically been a destination for a variety of cultures and objects arriving from all quarters. i thought of this as i carried stones from okinawa and setouchi across the sea, from hokkaido, and used them to create a circle on top of the mountain: a necklace dedicated to mt. gion. my hope is that as people come here, as people climb the mountain, the number of stones will grow and the necklace will flourish, becoming ever-living.

70 x 105cm

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About Shimabuku

Born in 1969 in Kobe, Shimabuku is an artist who collects unusual encounters. When he was younger, he wanted to become a poet or tourist guide. Today he is an artist, producer and smuggler of stories, customs and myths which he observes and collects on his journeys. Taking on the role of a Candide-like figure, Shimabuku travels the world, interacts with strangers, and converses with nature, instigating moments of poetry, humor, and wonderment, but also creating bridges between the specificities of different cultures and localities (nowadays a relevant position, considering our global world as a made up of a multitude of localities). Each of his works (including videos, sculptural installations, performance documentations, and photography) tells the story of these improbable encounters across borders, species, and states of being. This artist experiments all kinds of interaction, pushing back the limits of the physics and the imaginary.

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