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Tides 2012-2021, two-channel video installation, (HD converted SD video, smartphone shot HD video, color, sound), 11’14”, Edition 1/3+AP
All images courtesy of the artist
Tides 2012-2021 is a two-channel video installation featuring free diving fisherfolks and their respective seascapes in Southeast and East Asian waters who the artist has personally engaged with throughout the course of her decade-long project taken place in coastal areas along the Black and Tsushima Warm Currents.
Appearing on the two screens like a mirror image, the video alternately shows each diver inhaling and exhaling at the coasts of where they are each based. Respiring like the ebb and flow of tide, they seem to be breathing towards sea in front of them, toward something invisible beyond, toward each other, and/or toward themselves.
The original form of the work was created in 2012 capturing two sea women free-divers breathing across the strait from Jeju Island and Fukuoka which became the first work made in her ongoing artistic exploration of human nature and life in the world of fluidity that the artist continues to pursue today.
Some nine years later with our awareness of breathing being heightened by the pandemic, the artist thought of her free-diving fishery mentors, well-practiced in entrusting their survival to providence as they breathe, and asked them to send footage of their breathing shot by relatives or close friends to deliver to us the power to imagine, once again, wherever we may be, what it will be like to breathe the world again, breathe in the world, receive breath in this world.
Locations
・Hado-ri, Jeju Island (2011 / South Korea)
・Kanezaki, Munakata, Fukuoka (2011 / Japan)
・Sa-dong ri, Ulleung Island（2020 / South Korea) *Filmed by a family.
・Matina Aplaya, Davao, Mindanao (2020 / The Philippines) *Filmed by a friend.
・Kamoga-ura, Wajima, Ishikawa (2020 / Japan) *Filmed by a relative.
・Ama-cho, Oki, Shimane (2021 / Japan) *Filmed by a family.
