I am trying to melt our sleeping recollections just as they are frozen at the bottom of our hearts. My works are made using antique objects which peoples recollections have sank in, contain photographs and movies imprinted with people’s recollections. The movie is very suitable for catching the movement of fluctuation and the fluctuation evokes recollections. I think that recollections are inherited from human to human through the past generations and DNA from the time of microorganisms, and that people can reach these common memories that cross over the world’s various races and generations if we can awaken our own memories. Thus, human beings are tied together by common memories, and we will cross over those boundaries by sharing our memories in the fur future. In reality, we keep repeating a question without an answer, fluctuating between the past and the future.

”Repetition and recollection are the same movement, just in opposite directions, because what is recollected has already been and is thus repeated backwards, whereas genuine repetition is recollected forwards.”
- "repetition" Søren Kierkegaard

Text by the artist 

*image (left)
© Ken Matsubara
courtesy of the artist and MA2 Gallery