NATSUMI SAKAMOTO
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FOLLOW  TO  YOUR DESTINATION 
video installtion at Taro Okamoto museum, Kanagawa, Japan, 2011
The 14th Taro OKAMOTO Award for Contemporary Art, TARO OKAMOTO Museum, Kawasaki 
​「ロンドンに留学中、Pimlico駅である女性を見かけた。赤いスカーフに青いコート。黒の鞄に新聞を斜めにさし、急ぎ足で通り過ぎる。彼女はいつも同じ時間に、同じ格好で現れる・・・まるで物語の登場人物のように。ある日、私は彼女のあとを追いかけることにした・・・。」
この作品は、駅で見かけた赤いスカーフの女性に身を扮した作者が、ロンドンの街中にいる通りすがりの人々をランダムに追いかけるパフォーマンスのドキュメンタリー映像と、その様子を鉛筆画の手書きアニメーションにした映像、そして十数点のドローイングで構成されたインスタレーションである。パフォーマンスは以下のルールに基づいて行った。
1誰かのあとを追いなさい
2その人を見失ったら止まりなさい
3地図にその人を描きなさい

様々な人種が行き来するロンドンという都市で暮らす人々を観察し、彼らの帰る場所やそれぞれの物語を想像する。通りすがりの人々の目的地を借りた、destinationのない旅である。
When I was a student in London, I saw a women at Pimlico station every morning. She wore a red skirt and a blue coat she also had a black bag with a newspaper. And she always passed briskly on, with the same clothes at the same time of the day as if she was a fictional character in a story. One day, I decided to follow her.

This is the video installation with 2 films as well as drawings. The first documentary film is to show my performancein London to follow strangers on the street, and the second one is the drawing animation of the performance. In the space, there were the dozen drawings of the lady I met on the wooden plinths.
The performance was done by following these roles I created below. 
-Follow someone.
-Stop when you lose the person.
-Draw the person on the map.

In a city like London whereas so multicultured, I observed people on the street to imagine where they came from and their personal stories. This is the endless journey to borrow somebodyユs destination. 


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installation view at The 14th Taro OKAMOTO Award for Contemporary Art, TARO OKAMOTO Museum, Kawasaki, 2011
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drawing works: pencil on paper
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  • cv
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    • PRINT MAKING
    • A Rowan Wards off Witches
    • The Interview with a Witch
    • MOTHER STONE
    • MOTHERS ROOM
    • My Grandma's Apple Pie
    • Listen to her spinning wheel
    • Unforgettable Landscape (ROWAN TREE)
    • Anonymous moments
    • Unforgettable Landscape (pigeon loft)
    • Unforgettable Landscape (Hualien)
    • Memory of Place
    • Follow to your destination
    • Walking along the river
    • Walking Along The Boundary
    • BLIND DRAWING
    • I am a forest
    • unforgettable landscapes painting project
    • drawing
  • INTERVIEW
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  • exhibition review
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