“FARAWAY” solo exhibition
2023.1.14–15at Dowel, Kodaira, Tokyo
This self-curated exhibition shows the outcome of my exchange semester in Japan. The featured works are previous projects finalized in Japan for the show.
Special thanks to Nagao Tomoka for helping with the curation process. Thanks to Luo Zhaoxuan, KAIZI, and Sakai Fu for giving advice.
In our once and only short life journey, it is impossible to experience all the possibilities, but it would be fantastic if we could experience other people’s life. From the first-person perspective, we experience episodes that are utterly different from our daily life, and the new ideas born from there are also very important.
Images, music, and interactions, multiple media convey feelings that can not be expressed only through words. This three works as a whole, arouse the feelings of the audience, and gradually intensify them. Finally, the audience feels like being the character in the story, feel the same emotions, and have deeper thoughts about those emotions.
Why are we able to feel others’ feelings? Maybe people’s minds are not so different from each other, they are just surrounded by different environments. Building a specific environment could make people react in the same way. People are always connected with the same minds even if being separated far away from each other.
However, in this sameness of human beings, where can we find our own distinct identity?
Maybe there is an identical one exists somewhere and sometime. The moment when they feel the same emotion, their identity overlaps regardless of how far away they are separated in time and distance.
自分の一度きりの短い人生の中で、全ての可能性を経験することは不可能です。もし他人の人生を体験できるなら、良いでしょうか?当事者の視点から、今までの人生と全く違うエピソードを経験し、そこから生まれる新しい考えもとても大切なもの。
映像、音楽、インタラクション、複数の媒体で、言葉だけでは届かない感情を伝える。この三つの作品は一つの連作として、観客の感情を喚起し、その感情は段々と強くなる。漸く自分が物語の主人公になる、同じ感情を体験する、その感情に対しての考えも一層深くなる。
どうして他人の思いが自分のこととして感じられる?人の心はそれぞれ違うものではない、生きてきた環境が違うだけ。その環境を作ることができたなら、人々の反応は似ることだろう。どんなに遠く離れても、人々は同じ心で繋がっている。
でも、この人間の同一性から見れば、自分のアイデンティティはどこ?
⻑い時間の間に、遠い距離の中に、たぶんもう一人の自分が存在する。感情が同じになる瞬間、時間と距離を越える、あそこにいる遠く離れた自分と繋がっている。
FEATURED WORKS
