Seongsan Art Hall

Fuyuka Shindo, To Bring Water from the Ishikari River, 2024, phorographic images, writings and essays, postcards, binder, drawing, dimensions variable, All the documentation photographs by Rumiko Ito

To Bring Water from the Ishikari River is a touring performance that originally took place on the Ishikari River in Hokkaido in the winter of 2021. Home to the Ishikari River, Hokkaido — an island in northern Japan — is both the artist’s own hometown and a recurring player in his work. Shindo’s tour of the ever-present river, bracing against the harsh Hokkaido winter snow and winds, invites a fully embodied experience of the once-familiar nature world, and therefore an encounter with the history that has built up around it.

This exhibition presents a new arrangement of photographs documenting the process behind this piece, texts researched and written by Shindo herself, and various historical materials. Both Hokkaido, which has undergone rapid industrialization and urbanization, and the Ishikari River, which has been manipulated and controlled by humans for over a thousand years, share deep resonance with Changown, which has a similar origin story — reminding us of the relationship between ourselves and our forgotten surroundings.