Eri Saito
彼は家に帰れない
video, 3min53sec, color, stereo
2016 / art space kimura ASK?
15 歳の少年が行方不明であるという市内放送を道端で聞いたとき、私はその少年と同じような格好をしていた。15 歳という若さでどのような理由から姿を消してしまったのかという不安と、自分の服装との一致のため、自分が探されている対象だと錯覚するような奇妙な感覚から制作した映像作品。少年の不在に自己の不在が被さってくる不安感を自宅への帰り道に撮影した映像などと実際に録音した少年を探す市内放送で構成。
Someone who can’t go back home
video, 3min53sec, color, stereo
2016 / art space kimura ASK? (Tokyo)
When I heard the radio broadcast about a missing 15-year-old boy, I realized that I was dressing exactly the same as that boy according to the announcement. It gave me a mixed feeling that on the one hand, I was wondering why this young boy had gone missing while on the other hand, I felt that somehow I became the one that people were looking for because of the clothes. The weird anxiety that the absence of me might cover the real absence of the boy fulfilled me the whole time till I got back home, and the video of this work was taken within that time. The sounds were recorded from the original broadcast.


Solo exhibition "someone's missing" / art space kimu ASK?