She always used to tell me about her mom’s business on Megijima and invited me there. That student had a strong personality, she was not a “good” student, but for some reason, she probably became my favorite student there. It was owned and managed by the mother of one of my students at the junior high school / high school where I used to teach a couple of hours a day. When I arrived in Japan, almost eight years ago, the place was open. See, the Little Shops on the Island occupy a former guesthouse/beach-house, and I happen to know quite well the daughter of the former owner. Indeed, this year, Megijima inaugurated the Little Shops on the Island, a series of eight artworks and projects in the same building, most of them being actual shops.įirst, there is something a bit odd for me going to this place. ![]() Not sure.Īnd between Mecon and the beach awaited us our final stop of the day, but it’s a big one. Is that me or are there fewer plants? Or maybe they cut a tree or something. That red cone (don’t ask…) but also some very interesting papier mâché (I think) animals: Remember, Megi House is mostly Aichi Prefectural University Arts and Music‘s own concert hall in Setouchi, but when they don’t have live music, there are some exhibits too. It’s not a “real” cone, it’s art somehow. Why this red cone in the middle? No idea. It’s gone! Not only the artwork but the house too! Well, this is what the place looked like last May: Intrigued, I went to check it out last November during a trip to the island, and while the artwork was still there and was still fine, the house inside which it was located wasn’t so fine (if I could see the artwork despite the house being closed, it was because of the holes in the walls). I assumed that it may have been a mistake. I was quite surprised that it wasn’t listed for this year when the first list was published. One of the veteran artworks of the Setouchi Triennale on Megijima was Equipoise by Harumi Yukutake. In any case, while the artwork Ebune – Drifters is intriguing from the outside, as soon as you enter, you’ll recognize a style very similar to Chaos Lounge’s: It has its importance because the artist Kouryou (she romanizes her name this way, but remember that in Japanese, in that case, ‘ ou‘ is not the sound that you find in ‘ cloud‘, but it is a long ‘ o‘, so the name is pronounced something along the lines of Kohryoh) has worked with Chaos Lounge in the past, she may or may not have been a member of the collective. ![]() I knew it location, if only because I had a glimpse of it a few weeks earlier as it was under construction, but also because it was the site of one of the three Oni Houses by Chaos Lounge three years ago. Right off the boat, we went to a work of art that is a bit far from the rest. So, why don’t we go and find out together? However, things have started to change in 2016 and I was quite curious to see what the island had to offer in 2019. Almost none is related to the Setouchi Triennale, although it rarely had amazing art in the past. It’s no secret that Megijima is far from being my favorite island of the area for a bunch of reasons. We were on May 12th, the Spring session of the Setouchi Triennale 2019 had just started its second half, and the end was in the distance already.
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