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In Flos Pavonis, Aya Momose follows a film correspondence format, which has been used traditionally in Japanese diary films. This film narrates the ongoing repressive control over the female body in two culturally distant countries, Poland and Japan, during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Flos pavonis” is a herb that was used as an abortifacient by enslaved Black women with unwanted pregnancies under colonial rule. In 2021, Poland had just made abortion illegal, and in Japan people’s activities continued to be limited by the pandemic. A story of their own bodies being oppressed is told through the email correspondence of two women in these countries. This work (by the up-and-coming visual and performance artist Momose) centers on a sense of alienation in gendered and sexualized society.
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교환일기는 임흥순과 모모세 아야가 2015년부터 2018년까지 협업한 영상 프로젝트이다. 아이폰으로 촬영한 영상을 상대방에게 보내주면 그 영상소스를 활용해 각자 자유롭게 편집하고 내레이션을 넣어 완성하는 형식이다. 사적인 이야기로 시작해 공적인 이야기로, 이미지와 사운드의 어긋남으로 나아가는, 공간과 시간이 뒤섞인 이 영상일기는 앞으로도 계속 지속될 예정이다.
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A documentary that re-enacts a woman's conversation with her ex-partner – depicts the discrepancies present in the visual mode of communication that is sign language. Using an interview that she conducted with a deaf female dancer, the artist wrote a narrative based on the interviewee's personal experience, which became the basis of the work. In the video, a woman lies in bed talking through sign language to her ex-partner.
