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Leggy_Chanpuru 2024～
In 2024, I traveled northward through Okinawa for seven days with the keywords “distribution/adaptation/native growth” of plants.
I collected overgrown and unsold materials from cactus farmers, closed plant stores, unmanned sales outlets, U.S. military bases, markets, historical museums, home centers, and so on. I installed “ Mixed planting = chanpuru-planting” which is planting in water tanks using drifted materials from the seashore and soil from cultivated lands without permission, in the garden. How will the “unnatural nature,” which will continue to be placed in the garden after the exhibition, adapt to the land and people of Yambaru and grow by itself? While adding new materials, I continue to observe its process as well as confirming its various roots.
Exhibition hall
Ogimi Village Former Shioya Elementary School 538 Shioya, Ogimi Village, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa
ARTIST
photo Kenji Morita Courtesy of MUJIN-TO Production
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2023 is a garden art project by Yasutaka Hayashi and Motomu Inaoka, members of Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group, and artist Kenta Nishimura. They have established a project space in the Kitakore Building in Kōenji, Tokyo, and open the space once a month to hold exhibitions and sales. They also hold sales trips, and participate in events and exhibitions where plants are photographed in real time and VJ.