Migration | Kenji Tsuyuguchi | Aka Aka 2024

Migration | Kenji Tsuyuguchi | Aka Aka 2024This book aims to take a look at the migrations, internal to the nation and forced by disparate events, that have occurred over the years and that have created uninhabited spaces. It starts from a distant past with the forced relocation of the Ainu populations of Hokkaido, including the areas of Tokyo and Sapporo where the "Development Commission", heavily involved in the relocations, has operated. Then the areas abandoned by the mining industry are

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thirty years after commencing work on these series

the garden became a kind of basket that held all sorts of seeds and living things

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Shya reveals a more personal and meditative Hong Kong

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In the final part of the magazine there are English translations of some of the published articles including all the statements of the eight featured artists: Kikuji Kawada