Touch My Mumblings, Hug My Words, Kiss My Singing

2023

[Location] Tokyo, Japan

[Medium] Video Installation / Super 8 Film

[Role] Artist

[Organisation] · (O)Kamemochi

[About]

The Denchu Hirakushi House in Tokyo's Ueno district is a place where time behaves differently. It's a Registered Tangible Cultural Property — wooden, lived-in, still holding the presence of the sculptor who built it. To show work here is to enter a conversation with that presence.

I contributed Déambuler: Blue Dream (2022), a Super 8 film made in London, Turkey and Italy — projecting its grainy, blue drifting imagery onto the walls of a traditional Japanese atelier. There's something tender about placing a personal analogue archive inside a house that is itself an archive.

The grain of the Super 8 and the grain of the wood: two textures of memory meeting with the time as medium. The exhibition, presented under the auspices of Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai), brought together fourteen artists across East Asia and Europe in a format that felt less like a gallery and more like a haunted house — a performative walk-through where soundscape, video, and the architecture itself wove into a single, layered experience. The curatorial thread was inherited memory: how the stories of our grandparents tangle with national histories, and how those ghostly forms manifest in the present.

For me, it was a quiet act of co-presence — being one voice among many, speaking across cultures and time, without needing to explain everything.