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Walking around Outdoor Photo Exhibition Shioya Bay・ Ungami
Shioya is the place we request to stay every time we participate in YAF. Shioya Bay, where we have continued to conduct interviews and research.
Shioya store and the neighbors who have always welcomed us with open arms.
The dialogue that we continue to have.
We learned about the “Ungami (sea god festival),” a traditional event with a history of about 500 years in the bay, through spending time with the neighbors who gather under the banyan tree in front of the Shioya store. The place where we spent our time is an important place where sacred events are held. The beach just in front of this place is “Shinaba (beach for young men),” the goal point of the “Sabani (traditional fishing boat)” of the “Gogan Hari,” in which each village competes for the fastest time. It is a special day when families who have left their villages come together. We hope that the exhibition will not only serve as a record of the past, but also as a time for visitors to reminisce about “that day, that person, and that time,” while walking around the exhibition by touching on the life of the bay and the memories of the land.
In addition to the photo exhibition, the second “Town Walk and Yuntaku Party” will be held with local residents.
Exhibition hall
Ogimi Village Former Shioya Elementary School 538 Shioya, Ogimi Village, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa
ARTIST
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A collective derived from the “Uymam Project,” a five-year cultural and artistic project that began in 2018 in Shiraoi-cho, Hokkaido.
Through fieldwork and interview research, they focus on the lives of local people, memories of the land, climate, geography, and old documents, and they express their act of rediscovering and re-editing the tangible and intangible resources, values, and attractions of the region in the form of a walking around photo exhibition.