A VIAGEM

of BOUSTANI Christian

PORTUGAL, 1998, 00:10:00

Production : D & D Audiovisuais
Genre : Fiction, Video art
Keyword : History, Portugal

Summary :
1534 : A portuguese ship reaches Japan for the first time. This is the beginning of an expansion toward the Far East, of the opening of new commercial routes and of an intense cultural exchange. The finely gilded panels faithfully restore the image of the encounter, and the amazed, amused and sometimes anxious eye on those long-nosed western people, with their strange customs, their rare animals and unknown objects, some of which, guns for instance, were to change the course of their history. This work was commissioned for the Portuguese Pavilion, host country of the Lisbon World Fair in 1998.

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