Last weekend was a pretty busy one. Four islands were visited in two days. Oshima, Megijima, and Ogijima on Saturday, Shodoshima on Sunday. The reason was a preview of a certain number of the Setouchi Triennale 2019 new artworks’ sites. Why? With whom? How did I manage three islands in […]
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Yesterday, the weather was wonderful. My friend M had to go to Shodoshima for various matters and she invited our common friend W and me to go with her on the island for a fun day. We hadn’t planned anything, and just winged it for the whole day. This is […]
Today’s post is both a retrospective and a preview for a Setouchi Triennale artwork.. I’m going to briefly tell you about Shodoshima Island Lab, a project made by an Osaka-based collective called Graf. I really liked it in 2013, and I’m quite glad it’s returning this year, although […]
Last week, we went to Shodoshima – where I hadn’t been for way too long – in order to see what the Setouchi Triennale 2016 had to offer there. This year, there are about 40 artworks on the island, and it will be a difficult task to manage to see all of […]
On October 15 of every year, the Uchinomi Matsuri takes place on Shodoshima. It is one of the eight fall matsuri that take place mid-October on the island over the span of 10 days. All of them are harvest matsuri and are affiliated with various Hachiman shrines on the island. A couple […]
On Shōdoshima, in the small town of Umaki, you can see one of the most impressive and most beautiful artworks of the Setouchi Triennale. And it has a pretty unique “feature” in the fact that it wasn’t made by an artist but by the local population! The piece doesn’t […]
On Shōdoshima, when you leave the village of Umaki towards the eastern mountains of the island, in a small olive grove like one can find here and there, there is a pretty peculiar object: Yes, this is what it looks like; a big white olive with a […]
Just some funny looking Daikon in the Shōdoshima countryside (more precisely in the village of Umaki)