Artworks

Setouchi Triennale

Setouchi Triennale is a contemporary art festival held every three years. It was first held in 2010 and the next Triennale will take place in 2019. Fram Kitagawa has been the general director of the Triennale. There are also various activities called Art Setouchi outside the period of the Triennale.The 3rd edition of the Triennale in 2016 continued to pursue the theme of Restoration of the Sea. It was held over three sessions, spring, summer and autumn, for a total of 108 days on the 12 islands of the Seto In-land Sea, as well as in the ports of Takamatsu and Uno. In today’s globalizing world, with increasing homogenization and streamlining, the islands were losing their unique characteristics because of the aging and decreasing of the population on the islands. The Setouchi Triennale is held with the aim of returning vitality to the islands, and seeks to make the Seto Inland Sea a “Sea of Hope” for all of the regions of the world.The installation “Beyond the Border-Tide” by Lin Shuen Long were exhibited along the beach of Shodoshima at the Setouchi Triennale 2016. A total of 196 figures of children made of sand represents the number of countries recognized by Japan. Exposed to the sun, wind and rain, the figures slowly disintegrated, returning to sand, a symbol of the vulnerable children of the world who wander in search of home, tossed about by the cruelty of adults and warring nations. At the center of this booth, sand sculptures of this installation are replicated.

Participant

Shunlong Lin “Beyond the Border-Tide”