Talk with Natsumi Aoyagi and Sayaka Mitome
Original title: Talk with with Natsumi Aoyagi and Sayaka Mitome
A screening of Natsumi Aoyagi’s film Sanitary Fables is followed by a conversation with the artist and curator Sayaka Mitome about the project’s themes of water, hygiene and purity.
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Artist Natsumi Aoyagi and curator Sayaka Mitome come together for a conversation about the project ‘Sanitary Fables’, in a session that also includes a screening of the film we will be presenting at the Studio. The session begins with a screening of ‘Sanitary Fables – The Snail That Drank the Sea Dry, The Sewer That Is Neither, The Crow That Found a Washhouse’, a film by Natsumi Aoyagi, followed by a conversation between the artist and curator Sayaka Mitome. The work lends its title to the exhibition and comprises three fables. It is also the piece that comes closest to the project’s conceptual core, exploring water as an element of both connection and separation, while questioning the boundaries between clean and dirty, pure and impure. The artist and curator will discuss ‘Sanitary Fables’, Natsumi’s first solo exhibition in Portugal. The video installation follows the flows of Lisbon’s sewage and public hygiene systems and, through allegory and non-human perspectives, reflects on a form of sanitation that is often taken for granted. The work extends across several locations in the city, including public washhouses, and invites visitors to explore it with a map in hand. The session will feature Japanese–Portuguese consecutive interpretation and Portuguese–English AI-assisted translation.