Mirror | Masanori Hata | Aka Aka 2025

"Oshika Kabuki is a local theatre tradition in the town of Oshika in Nagano Prefecture that has continued for more than three hundred years.

Its origins are unclear, but there is a record of a performance back in 1767. The tradition has been passed down by the people of the village through changing times. This timespan of three hundred years is of course connected to the present, but it is not visible to the human eye.

That inspired me to try, through this work, to communicate with somewhere a little removed from this time and this place. But where exactly is that slightly distant location?" - From publisher's website