Shimabuku: Octopus, Citrus, Human

Shimabuku’s itinerant, imaginative practice creates works inspired by his encounters with humans, plants and animals

Since the 1990s, Japanese artist Shimabuku (born 1969) has traveled to various places around the world, creating drawings, photographs and performances that consider the daily lives of people he encounters, as well as new forms of communication between humans and nonhumans.