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Project Name | Oiwa Island 2 | Posted in | Installation, Painting | Artist | Oscar Oiwa |
Year | 2016 |
Originally presented at the previous Triennale in 2013, the artist has expanded his rendering of the Setouchi landscape —depicting a small seaside cottage and forest— to include stretches of the sky and distant islands. Located in a former soy sauce factory in Shōdoshima on Shōdo Island, the dome can be entered through a door that is also drawn as such on the interior side, as a hint of the installation’s interplay between reality and fantasy. Once inside, visitors are engulfed by an idyllic scene of carefully drawn details evoking traditional Japanese woodblock prints as well as tribal art, which hovers between the life-like and the fairy tale-like, in the realm of magic realism.