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In 1996, a King Penguin named Lala became a local celebrity in Shibushi, Japan. After being rescued from a fishing net by the Nishimoto family, he refused to return to the wild.
He lived in an air-conditioned room in their home and was famous for walking alone to the fish market wearing a tiny backpack.
The fishmonger would feed him a fresh fish and place another in his bag for the trip home.
‘I’ve been trying to construct a memory that would let me undo the past …’
Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence, 2016
Marie Cecile Thijs, Orange tulips in Delftware Vase, 2017