Rintaro Hara+Yu Hara | Works
Water Village
- Water Village
- Material: wood, water, water pump, air pump, hose, Styrofoam
- Year: 2020
- Place: Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, KINARE, Niigata, Japan
Water runs in the 25-meter-long “river” embedded in plywood. Along the river are dozens of sculptures based on Yu Hara’s illustrations – household items, buildings, animals – as well as functioning fountains, mills and Shishi-odoshi (a water-driven bamboo clapper) forming a village scape. Viewers are invited to make a boat with stylofoam and straws and set it adrift in the river.
Photo: Noriko Yoneyama
