My work is a gigantic fake. In my work, I turn fiction into reality, and reality into fiction. I am interested in things that pretend to be real.
I copy my original self into the media as a protagonist, and make things that happen in my life into a fictional form of episodes. I select scattered fragmented memories and the imprinted memories of various events, blending them into a fictional space to create a state of confusion, causing a sense of disorientation. In the protagonist’s realm, only fragmented reality is intermingled with fiction, and the yet-to-be-revealed events exist in a folded state, akin to atoms.
These episodes are reconfigured and reproduced in different forms—sometimes installed in various physical spaces, or newly reconstructed in online or two-dimensional spaces. Throughout this process, the episodes are not presented chronologically, which makes the context jumbled, causing a parachronism. This approach grants viewers the freedom to actively engage their imaginations within their own channels of perception, like gutters in comics (blank space between the frames).
That is to say, I expand a fiction into reality, and conversely, shift a part of reality into fiction, so that the boundary is blurred. Fiction serves as a device that obstructs the verification of events, helping to incorporate them into a virtual world.
This working method experiments with how personal experiences, subjectivity, and the cultural contexts they inhabit can be preserved, replicated, expanded, and translated. Also I explore how this individual's subjectivity can overlap with the fictional. This is not a project that has a certain conclusion nor a story or real movies with a fixed ending. I just follow the cinematic mechanism, that is inherent in me, as a working method for my work.