Tropical Tree is inspired by the 1960`s play Nettaiju by Yukio Mishima. In this play a tragic drama takes place amid the uncluttered minimalist setting of a Japanese garden, inside of which a mysterious tropical tree is rising outrageously.
Throughout a visual and musical undertaking, the exhibition opens up Mishima`s literary work to an imaginary landscape, and extends the horizon to several themes and allegories associated with the tree, such as: the memory, the family, the conflict between nature and society, and the widespread idea in several world’s mythologies of a sacred Tree of life…
Exhibition dates: 2016/4/22 – 2016/5/22
LIVE PERFORMANCE on 2016/5/22nd | MYORENJI temple
Aēsop Kawaramachi
327 Shioya-cyo, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto