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Exhibition
HOUSE Tampere
Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland
9 November - 7 December 2025
Participating artists:
Chiaki Kamikawa (CY/JP) Janne Räisänen (FI/DE) Tarmo Paunu (FI) Heli Ryhänen (FI) Christina Papakyriakou (CY)
Marianna Constanti (CY) Witte Wartena (NL/DE) B.C. Epker (NL/CY) Tatiana Ferahian (CY/NL)
Amabie x Aphrodite
Amabie x Aphrodite
Watercolour, ink, gouache, acrylic on paper
26 x 18 cm
2020
“When a pandemic devastates the country, draw an image of me and show it to as many people as possible.”
Amabie is Japanese yokai (monster-spirit) who mysteriously appeared from the sea water and instructed people to share the image of it to stave off the disease.
Amabie was first documented by a government official in Japan in 1846.
I made this drawing so that people can 'share' this image.
You can download the image, only for the personal use against the pandemic!
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