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The photo above is a photo of the venue. At the venue, there are 8 "walls", 3 "prints", and 3 "stuffed toys". People called "Inuit", a Canadian indigenous tribe, live in the far north of northern Canada. They spent 4,000 years traveling after Caribbean (reindeer) in a cold environment, but by around 1950, the Canadian government's settlement policy changed significantly. Under such circumstances, Inuit women began to use the extra cloth of their family's winter clothes to make life far north as a "wall wall." The motifs are incarnations born from the state of living in harsh nature and the idea that spirits dwell in everything.

The photo above is the "wall hanging" on display. In the harsh reality of modernization, the simple and warm expression in colorful colors expresses the thoughts of cherishing tradition and conveying the original life and thoughts of Inuit to descendants. I think. In this exhibition, works including the old collection of Masako Iwasaki, who lives in Toronto, who introduced "Inuit Walls" to Japan, are exhibited. Please listen to the message from the far north.

Period: January 11, 2022 (Tuesday) - March 18, 2022

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Venue: Noevia Ginza Gallery (Noevia Ginza Building 1F) 7-6-15 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Admission fee: Free of charge