Shimabuku’s work is by now more than twenty years old, going back to his encounter with the Alpine landscape in Schwaz, Austria. Millions of years ago, the Alps were underwater, as fossils found on mountaintops suggest. Shimabuku proposed to villagers living in these mountains to fly fish kites and imagine the former underwater life among their peaks and valleys. The gentle surrealism of his flying fish might be read as a counterproposal to the 3D-rendered regeneration plans given to an area like Gries.

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https://2023.steirischerherbst.at/en/program/artists/5171/shimabuku