ALOHA NŌ
Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025

February 15 –
May 04, 2025

Futoshi Miyagi

Futoshi Miyagi’s film installation at AUPUNI SPACE includes a compilation of four new works as well as an iteration of an earlier work—all related to his ongoing project American Boyfriend, which began in 2012. The project intertwines Okinawa’s complex geopolitical history with his personal exploration of identity, sexuality, and societal issues by reflecting on the US occupation of the island in post-WWII, the enduring military presence, and Japan’s hetero-normative patriarchal society, which Miyagi has questioned since his youth. Through layered storytelling, Miyagi attempts to make sense of his own memories as an Okinawan queer teenager and invites viewers to reflect on identity, humanity, invisible wounds, and insistence on aloha nō despite cruel and violent histories.