Eri Saito

May all your wounds heal​

2021, single channel video with 5.1ch surround sound, 5min5sec

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This is a background I haven't explicitly mentioned in this film and something that no one could know, but last year, a family member diagnosed with cancer underwent surgery to remove part of her body. I created this film based on my experience of indirectly feeling her pain, even though I am an outsider. I believe it was a psychological pain I felt from the painful appearance of her post-surgery condition, but for me, it was an indescribable sadness.
In reality, we cannot feel the pain of others. However, if the nerves in our brains were physically connected, we might be able to experience it. My simulated experience of her pain felt like a complex neural transmission that could not be fully interpreted.
While watching the white objects in the film spin and fall, I wished that time and wounds could melt away, and that the physical or emotional pain of someone could heal.

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Exhibition History:
2021 Until It Gets Dark, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

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Screening History:
2024 e-flux Film Award, e-flux Screening Room, New York
2023 European Media Art Festival, Cinema Hasetor, Osnabrück
2022 Le FIFA, Montreal
2022 14th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

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Award:
2024 e-flux Film Award, Second Prize