COLLECTIONS
A Tiger Eaten by Pigeons (2018-2020), Movie 1/5, Blu-ray Disk(M-disc)/HDD/USB/1000-stitch belt (soldier's charm), Pigeon object, certification
All images courtesy of the artists
This video was produced in Hong Kong and Japan from 2018 to 2020.
Invasions, infections, patriotism, democracy, resistance, past and present, memories and wishes intersect around a pigeon, a symbol of peace, and a tiger, a symbol of war.
This is a story about one piece of cloth.
This is a story of war and aggression.
This is a story of the murder of democracy.
This is a story of resistance.
This is a story of a tiger eaten by pigeons.
Kyun-Chome is an artist unit comprised duo Eri Homma and Nabuchi. Acting on their keen senses and curiosity, they conduct mid- to long-term residencies in various locations both at home and abroad, performing repeated research, interviews, video creations, and a series of "acts" in order to dig deep into the core of the reality of a particular place. They have created work, mainly in the form of video installation, in socially divided areas such as Fukushima Prefecture, Ishinomaki City, and Okinawa Prefecture, as well as in Hong Kong and Berlin. Kyun-Chome investigates the object of modern faith, which people seek out despite its transgressions of science and logical reasoning. Realized by way of unveiling this faith's underling emotions and truth, their body of work blurs the boundaries between perpetrator and victim, parties involved and disinterested, and good and evil, poetically and humorously sublimating them.
