The Narrow Road to the Deep Sea
Visual Arts
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The entitled project aims to examine the notion of human displacement owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted in World War II in Hong Kong, China and Japan.
This project centers in a notorious historical event, namely Nanshitou Massacre (南石頭大屠殺), a series of human experiment and bacteriological tests were conducted to approximately 100,000 refugees from Hong Kong and south China. The Hong Kong refugees were being expatriated and repatriated by the Imperial Japanese Army from 1941 to 1945 due to various reasons. This project aims at suspending established historical judgment, re-discovering and unfolding details on humanity lurks deep within us all.
Inspired by the prominent Japanese poet Matsuo Basho’s travel diary The Narrow Road to the Deep North (奧之細道, Oku no Hosomichi), unlike Matsuo’s recreational adventure, the entitled project The Narrow Road to the Deep Sea highlights the escaping routes of Hong Kong refugees to Canton, where was 129km in the north of the colony. In order to facilitate the diminishing population scheme, the first Imperial Japanese Governor introduced three routes to Canton:
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