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MOTHERS ROOM
HDV 15min 2 channel video installation 2018 music by Marty Hicks installation at Yamakiwa Gallery To see full video, please send a message to get a password. |
母である女性達の部屋を訪ね、彼女達の母の記憶、そして母である自分自身についてのインタビューを行った。カメラが撮影するのは、他の女性のエピソードを朗読している様子、そして彼女達が暮らす室内の風景である。撮影後、今度は自身のエピソードをノートに書き記してもらい、次のインタビューの女性へと渡される。この映像インスタレーションでは二つのスクリーンで再生され、室内風景と朗読する女性のイメージが音楽と共に重なリ合う。母という役割がどのように継承されていくのかを探るために、母に関する世代間の記憶を記録した。それらのエピソードが抱く象徴的な母親像のイメージを浮かび上がらせ、一つのタイムラインの中に物語を紡ぐことーそれは私的なナラティブを拾い集め、集合的記憶を呼び起こす試みである。
This project is about the relationship between mothers’ memory of their mother and their own self-image as a mother. In this work, I interviewed mothers from different generations and backgrounds. I visited their homes to collect their stories. All of the stories are written in a red notebook and it is passed on to the next interviewee. In the film, they read the stories of the previous interviewee in front of camera. Each piece of narrative in the film doesn’t belong to the person who narrates it, as somebody else wrote it. Their reading sounds more like storytelling rather than acting - however there is an intimate relationship between the narrative they read and their own memories. The women’s personal narratives become the collective memory of a mother and this eventually creates a singular image of a mother - this can be viewed as the image of the expectation about mothers from society as well as the ideal form of a mother passed down from generation to generation. This is the experimental film project to search for what is the image of a mother that we seem to hold in our mind unconsciously. |
still from MOTHERS ROOM
