《家》
work at Mie no Ouchi in Mie, JAPAN.
Site-Specific Environmental Installation
size : 270㎡ (venue).
materials : my home itself, furniture, home appliances, daily necessities, and all inside my home.
2020~now
This work was realized not within an art institution, but in my own home, which I had opened as a communal living space for people from across Japan.
It was not conceived as an artwork from the outset. Rather, through shared meals, rituals of daily care, and moments of loss and mourning, the space gradually came to embody an alternative form of sociality.
The “work” emerged not as an object or installation, but as a way of being—a site of living relationality sustained through bodily gestures and emotional resonance.
There was no audience, no scheduled program, no distinction between creator and viewer. Each act—cooking, grieving, conversing—became both personal and collective. The death of my mother in this space became a pivotal moment: in the silence that followed, we did not seek meaning, but stayed with one another, letting presence itself speak.
Rather than being exhibited, the work lived. It was an intimate commons, built on impermanence, affect, and care.
What we found was not the architecture of a house, but a fleeting moment when “we” could be present in our unguarded selves. This practice opened up a space that resists representation, and cannot be archived—except perhaps in the body and memory of those who were there.