STATEMENT

本作は9日間にわたるパフォーマンスである。
イギリスにおいて帰還の象徴とされるドーバー海峡のホワイトクリフの形をした黒い衝立を、チョークの石を身体で持ち上げながら、日々白く塗り重ねていく。同時に、チョークの粉によって自身の身体も次第に白くなっていくが、雨が降るとそのすべては流れ落ちていく。毎日、パフォーマーは衝立の脇にある森から現れ、作業を行い、その後再び森へと戻っていく。

This work is a nine-day performance.
Each day, a black folding screen shaped like the White Cliffs of Dover—considered a symbol of homecoming in the U.K.—is gradually painted white by lifting chalk stones with the body. At the same time, the body is also gradually covered in chalk powder; however, when it rains, all of it is washed away. Each day, the performer emerges from the forest beside the screen, labors there, and returns to the forest.

Folkestone Fringe in parallel with the Folkestone Triennial 2017, U.K.
©Global Art Joint Curriculum 2017 between Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and Tokyo University of the Arts