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2014
A party and demonstration was held as a wedding reception for Ellie in 2014. Starting around midnight of January 24, the whole crowd took to the streets to march the next morning at half past 10, after drinking all night long at the party reception. The demonstration started at the famous Kabukicho District in Shinjuku, and then headed to West Shinjuku where Robert Indiana’s notable public art LOVE stands. The title LOVE IS OVER, pays homage to John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “WAR IS OVER!,” with the connotation that the couple will overcome whatever comes along in the future together with the participants. Wedding is essentially a social and public act. The party that morphed into a demonstration was an attempt to draw the boundary between public and private. As a result, various Japanesestyle elements – the intimate “love” relationship between individuals and society, unspoken public repression towards marriage, demonstration as an act to reclaim public art as a way to disseminate art, the problem of the Entertainment Business Law from the viewpoint of a legal party on the street, the wedding parade held by the royal family as an advertisement of unconditional love, the so called “foxes wedding” as a kind of festival – were visualized under this particular situation of having a demonstration that was guarded by policemen.


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  • Invitation for LOVE IS OVER
    Design: Hidenori Yoshioka
    Photo: Kenji Morita
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  • Invitation for LOVE IS OVER
    Design: Hidenori Yoshioka
    Photo: Kenji Morita
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  • Photo: Leslie Kee
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  • Photo: Leslie Kee
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  • Photo: Leslie Kee
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  • Photo: Andrey Bold
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  • Photo: Kishin Shinoyama
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  • Photo: Ryan Chan
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  • Photo: Kishin Shinoyama
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  • Photo: Leslie Kee
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  • Photo: MINI
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  • Photo: Kishin Shinoyama
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  • Photo: Kishin Shinoyama
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  • Photo: Leslie Kee
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  • LOVE IS OVER
    2014 Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable
    Installation view: Chim↑Pom: The Electrical Parade Never Was A Satisfaction To Me, hiromiyoshii roppongi, Tokyo 2014
    Support: Smappa!Group, Photo: Shinoyama Kishin, Leslie Kee, Morita Kenji, Ryan Chan, Sanpei Yasutomo, Carlos,Hasui Motohiko,Sakakura Keiichi, Ayame Yoshinobu, Andrey Bold,Yenjen Lee, Edward Fox, Oi-chan, Okada Hiroko, KasaiKatsuhiro, Kazama Sachiko, Kikuchi Mika, KitagawaYoko, Saito Naoko, Sato Takayoshi, Shiraishi Mitsuhiro,a.k.a. MijA, Sugahara Sota, Takamiya Akira, TakedaYoshiyuki, Tamura Masamichi, Nakai Kei, Nagaoka Yuuki, Narita Keisuke, Hirai Yuta, Francis Eddy, Horii Saki, Matsue Tetsuaki, Matsunami Shizuka, mini, YamakawaHaruna, Yamada Satomi, Yamamoto Aya, Yamamoto Yuko, Yoshioka Hidenori, Lee Komaki, Watanabe Ai, WatariEtsuko, Watari Koichi, Chim↑Pom
    Courtesy: hiromiyoshii, Tokyo

  • LOVE IS OVER
    2014 Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable
    Installation view: Chim↑Pom: The Electrical Parade Never Was A Satisfaction To Me, hiromiyoshii roppongi, Tokyo 2014
    Support: Smappa!Group, Photo: Shinoyama Kishin, Leslie Kee, Morita Kenji, Ryan Chan, Sanpei Yasutomo, Carlos,Hasui Motohiko,Sakakura Keiichi, Ayame Yoshinobu, Andrey Bold,Yenjen Lee, Edward Fox, Oi-chan, Okada Hiroko, KasaiKatsuhiro, Kazama Sachiko, Kikuchi Mika, KitagawaYoko, Saito Naoko, Sato Takayoshi, Shiraishi Mitsuhiro,a.k.a. MijA, Sugahara Sota, Takamiya Akira, TakedaYoshiyuki, Tamura Masamichi, Nakai Kei, Nagaoka Yuuki, Narita Keisuke, Hirai Yuta, Francis Eddy, Horii Saki, Matsue Tetsuaki, Matsunami Shizuka, mini, YamakawaHaruna, Yamada Satomi, Yamamoto Aya, Yamamoto Yuko, Yoshioka Hidenori, Lee Komaki, Watanabe Ai, WatariEtsuko, Watari Koichi, Chim↑Pom
    Courtesy: hiromiyoshii, Tokyo

  • LOVE IS OVER
    2014 Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable
    Installation view: Chim↑Pom: The Electrical Parade Never Was A Satisfaction To Me, hiromiyoshii roppongi, Tokyo 2014
    Support: Smappa!Group, Photo: Shinoyama Kishin, Leslie Kee, Morita Kenji, Ryan Chan, Sanpei Yasutomo, Carlos,Hasui Motohiko,Sakakura Keiichi, Ayame Yoshinobu, Andrey Bold,Yenjen Lee, Edward Fox, Oi-chan, Okada Hiroko, KasaiKatsuhiro, Kazama Sachiko, Kikuchi Mika, KitagawaYoko, Saito Naoko, Sato Takayoshi, Shiraishi Mitsuhiro,a.k.a. MijA, Sugahara Sota, Takamiya Akira, TakedaYoshiyuki, Tamura Masamichi, Nakai Kei, Nagaoka Yuuki, Narita Keisuke, Hirai Yuta, Francis Eddy, Horii Saki, Matsue Tetsuaki, Matsunami Shizuka, mini, YamakawaHaruna, Yamada Satomi, Yamamoto Aya, Yamamoto Yuko, Yoshioka Hidenori, Lee Komaki, Watanabe Ai, WatariEtsuko, Watari Koichi, Chim↑Pom
    Courtesy: hiromiyoshii, Tokyo

  • LOVE IS OVER
    2014/2022 Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable
    Installation view: Chim↑Pom: Happy Spring, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022
    Support: Smappa!Group, Photo: Shinoyama Kishin, Leslie Kee, Morita Kenji, Ryan Chan, Sanpei Yasutomo, Carlos,Hasui Motohiko,Sakakura Keiichi, Ayame Yoshinobu, Andrey Bold,Yenjen Lee, Edward Fox, Oi-chan, Okada Hiroko, KasaiKatsuhiro, Kazama Sachiko, Kikuchi Mika, KitagawaYoko, Saito Naoko, Sato Takayoshi, Shiraishi Mitsuhiro,a.k.a. MijA, Sugahara Sota, Takamiya Akira, TakedaYoshiyuki, Tamura Masamichi, Nakai Kei, Nagaoka Yuuki, Narita Keisuke, Hirai Yuta, Francis Eddy, Horii Saki, Matsue Tetsuaki, Matsunami Shizuka, mini, YamakawaHaruna, Yamada Satomi, Yamamoto Aya, Yamamoto Yuko, Yoshioka Hidenori, Lee Komaki, Watanabe Ai, WatariEtsuko, Watari Koichi, Chim↑Pom
    Courtesy: hiromiyoshii, Tokyo
    Photo courtesy: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

  • LOVE IS OVER
    2014/2022 Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable
    Installation view: Chim↑Pom: Happy Spring, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022
    Support: Smappa!Group, Photo: Shinoyama Kishin, Leslie Kee, Morita Kenji, Ryan Chan, Sanpei Yasutomo, Carlos,Hasui Motohiko,Sakakura Keiichi, Ayame Yoshinobu, Andrey Bold,Yenjen Lee, Edward Fox, Oi-chan, Okada Hiroko, KasaiKatsuhiro, Kazama Sachiko, Kikuchi Mika, KitagawaYoko, Saito Naoko, Sato Takayoshi, Shiraishi Mitsuhiro,a.k.a. MijA, Sugahara Sota, Takamiya Akira, TakedaYoshiyuki, Tamura Masamichi, Nakai Kei, Nagaoka Yuuki, Narita Keisuke, Hirai Yuta, Francis Eddy, Horii Saki, Matsue Tetsuaki, Matsunami Shizuka, mini, YamakawaHaruna, Yamada Satomi, Yamamoto Aya, Yamamoto Yuko, Yoshioka Hidenori, Lee Komaki, Watanabe Ai, WatariEtsuko, Watari Koichi, Chim↑Pom
    Courtesy: hiromiyoshii, Tokyo
    Photo courtesy: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

  • LOVE IS OVER
    2014/2022 Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable
    Installation view: Chim↑Pom: Happy Spring, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022
    Support: Smappa!Group, Photo: Shinoyama Kishin, Leslie Kee, Morita Kenji, Ryan Chan, Sanpei Yasutomo, Carlos,Hasui Motohiko,Sakakura Keiichi, Ayame Yoshinobu, Andrey Bold,Yenjen Lee, Edward Fox, Oi-chan, Okada Hiroko, KasaiKatsuhiro, Kazama Sachiko, Kikuchi Mika, KitagawaYoko, Saito Naoko, Sato Takayoshi, Shiraishi Mitsuhiro,a.k.a. MijA, Sugahara Sota, Takamiya Akira, TakedaYoshiyuki, Tamura Masamichi, Nakai Kei, Nagaoka Yuuki, Narita Keisuke, Hirai Yuta, Francis Eddy, Horii Saki, Matsue Tetsuaki, Matsunami Shizuka, mini, YamakawaHaruna, Yamada Satomi, Yamamoto Aya, Yamamoto Yuko, Yoshioka Hidenori, Lee Komaki, Watanabe Ai, WatariEtsuko, Watari Koichi, Chim↑Pom
    Courtesy: hiromiyoshii, Tokyo
    Photo courtesy: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

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