“I filmed my family napping. Reflected off-screen on a small mirror ball, grains of sunlight reaching from much further away fell on their sleeping faces. It looked like a big baby or a likeness of death.”

In this work, Sleeping in the Light, the video is given two texts of different natures, mediated by a book and a performer, and presented as two works, an installation and a performance.
The major themes common to both works are “death” and “family.” After a person’s death, various words are used to interpret, comfort, and repose the soul, all of which are very important, but always leave out more than a few things.
In this exhibition, Koki Fujinaka will look at various aspects of “death” and “family” through two different texts, an essay (non-fiction) and a fiction, and attempt to access and care for the “body that is not here” through the sculpture and the performer’s body. In a society with a declining and aging population, the situation of facing the body of a family member comes to many people. If we follow the passage opened by the technique of care in reverse, we will be able to rethink the body in front of us and our own body that lives it from the inside out.
The rehearsals and performances will be documented through drawings by artist Ai Ono and examined through a dialogue with philosopher Yusuke Hasegawa. In addition to video, text, performers, and sculpture, the eyes of the artist and the words of others will be used to approach “death,” “family,” and the body in a multilayered way.