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Photos courtesy Yamakiwa Gallery.

By Indirections Find Directions Out

Patricia Dominguez, Love Enqvist, Gaia Fugazza, Dominic Hawgood, Mary Hurrell, Mariana Madgaleno, Carlos Santos, Julia Varela

Yamakiwa Gallery, Niigata, Japan

9 July, 9 August 2018

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This project was carried out in a small artistic initiative located in the mountains and rice fields of the countryside of Japan. It traced a practical/theoretical juxtaposition between Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal return of the same, the condition of ‘becoming’ and contemporary art. The intention was to explore the temporal juncture where the eternal past and the eternal future co-exist, manifesting in the curated encounter. Artworks were exhibited as open-ended material expressions of never-to-be-completed processes of formation. They shared concerns around life and death, transformation, alchemy, shamanism, metamorphosis, flux and change, karma, natural and artificial cycles and the internal paces of human anatomy, emotional tempos and rhythms of states of mind.

Special thanks to Yuri Fukushima.

With the support of Sasakawa Foundation and the Embassy of Mexico in Japan.

**Click here to read a review in Ocula Magazine: 'Echigo­Tsumari Art Triennale: The World's Largest Outdoor Art Feitival' by Tessa Moldan**

**There is chapter in my PhD which incorporates this project. Please read pages 179-233 of my thesis by clicking here.**