"Failure in Expression" Exhibition To resume at 2pm on October 8th, 12:48

The corner on the theme of “freedom of expression”, which was canceled at the International Art Festival in Aichi Prefecture, will resume at around 2pm on the 8th. Many people are visiting the venue from the morning as the security posture is strengthened before resumption.

At the “Aichi Triennale” that has been held since August 1, a corner was set up to display a statue of a girl symbolizing the comfort women issue on the theme of “impairment of expression”. A series of phone calls, etc., were canceled three days after the opening.

The executive committee of the art festival decided to restart the corner from around 2pm on the 8th after strengthening safety measures such as installing a metal detector.

In order to avoid confusion at the venue, visitors will be selected in advance and will be viewed in a guided tour format with a maximum of 30 people per session, and the number of visitors will be reduced to about 60 on the first day of the resumption today. .

In the morning, all the works of domestic and foreign artists who had declined the exhibition at the art festival in protest against the cancellation of the corner were resumed.

At the art festival venue, the situation was strengthened by increasing the number of security guards, many people visited before the opening at 10:00 am, and there was a line at the ticket office.

The man who visited the venue said, “A lot of things have been said about the corner, but I want to see it with my own eyes.”

Mayor Kawamura "No way to resume"

Mayor Kawamura of Nagoya City, acting as the president of the executive committee of the art festival, told reporters after visiting the corner in advance on the morning of the 8th. It was.

Furthermore, Mayor Kawamura said, “I will fulfill my responsibilities to the citizens of Nagoya” and sat down in front of the art festival venue and the Aichi prefectural government office in the afternoon to show the idea of ​​protesting the restart.

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, said at the press conference after the cabinet meeting, “The exhibition should be decided by the organizer of the organizer Aichi Triennale. This is due to the applicant's inappropriate behavior, and it has nothing to do with the reopening of the exhibition. "

The reporter asked, “Did you have any advice or instructions from the minister regarding the decision on non-subsidy grants?” I never gave any instructions to the Agency for Cultural Affairs. "