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Famed ‘father of the Japanese short story’ Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s 1922 work “In a Grove” lends its name to the title of BIEN’s debut London solo exhibition. Written during the Taisho Period, a time of political progress that saw new democratically elected parties temporarily take the place of the established oligarchic regime and both liberalism and global cultural influence briefly embraced, the tale lays out the contradictory testimonies gathered following the murder of a samurai. The discrepancies in the witness statements – from the samurai speaking through a medium, his widow and a notorious local bandit – not only leaves the reader ultimately in the dark as to the actual course of events, but also spotlights the sometimes subjective nature of truth itself.
That fiction can often be stronger than fact is a consideration BIEN recognises within the 21st-century context of information primarily shared and circulated online, as well as the subsequent proliferation of fake news, social…
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Famed ‘father of the Japanese short story’ Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s 1922 work “In a Grove” lends its name to the title of BIEN’s debut London solo exhibition. Written during the Taisho Period, a time of political progress that saw new democratically elected parties temporarily take the place of the established oligarchic regime and both liberalism and global cultural influence briefly embraced, the tale lays out the contradictory testimonies gathered following the murder of a samurai. The discrepancies in the witness statements – from the samurai speaking through a medium, his widow and a notorious local bandit – not only leaves the reader ultimately in the dark as to the actual course of events, but also spotlights the sometimes subjective nature of truth itself.
That fiction can often be stronger than fact is a consideration BIEN recognises within the 21st-century context of information primarily shared and circulated online, as well as the subsequent proliferation of fake news, social…
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