Commissioned for the Engawa – Japanese Contemporary Art Season programme organized by Calouste Gulbenkian Museum's Modern Art Center, The Voice of Inconstant Savage is an immersive installation that superimposes a prayer inspired by the story of a 16th-century Portuguese missionary, a chant from a Kakure-Kirishitan (hidden Christians) prayer – a religion rooted in Nagasaki Prefecture –, a chant from the Karawara spirits of the Awá indigenous people – who live in the Amazon rainforest – and a chorus of Western Gregorian chant. Morinaga questions the position of the aesthetics of inconstancy in relation to the discourse of the “savage” that modern society confronts.

Focusing on the life of the Hmong people who live in the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam, on this occasion Morinaga presents an installation that overlays shamanistic rituals to wade off evil and misfortune with the honey-collecting activities of beekeepers. Through the symbiotic coexistence of humans, the environment, and life brought about by the respective dialogue between the shaman/spirits and beekeeper/bees, the work serves to introduce an alternative perspective to our social life and the coded systems that exist within it.