Who Gives a Thought

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Who Gives a Thought | Photograph Installation | 2023

How can we experience firsthand the physical and temporal uniqueness of the information that the “I” captures, and the difficulty of sharing it with others that arises because of this?

Now that it is commonplace to inoculate ourselves with all kinds of information and content through screens, how can we break free from the fallacy that “I am able to recognize and do so without omission” what is cut out of the frame?

Under the banner of diversity, we are proud to create new concepts, acquire knowledge and understanding of them, and update our values in line with the times. If we try to increase the volume and resolution of the information we receive, we will only miss more and more of it.

If we increase the amount of information we receive in the dark without going through a self-reflective process, we will inevitably end up with indigestion. In these days when information processing is required to be precise, information that is difficult to understand and takes time to digest may be lost.

Everyone must have some kind of illogical feelings in themselves that cannot be easily and simply put into words. Who will accept them?

Through the physical act of viewing the images projected by the slide projector, we will trace the “traces of things that exist without being perceived” and the “boundary between the visible and the invisible”.