Video Work: Using Lies, 2026
This work is structured around my reading aloud a personal, autobiographical text written by my identical twin sister, in which she recounts memories of pain. The video presents this reading alongside footage of me using and performing with three metal sculptural works that I created.
At the core of this work lies my experience of metalworking. Onto a sheet of metal, I transfer a composite portrait made by layering photographs of my twin sister’s face and my own, and then hammer it. As I strike the metal and gradually raise its form, memories of past trauma are evoked. At the same time, these memories begin to transform, accompanied by a sensation as if life is gradually being imbued into the material.
In the video, my sister’s memories and words intersect with the memories that arise through my own process of making. Although the voice being read is undeniably my own, it gradually comes to sound like my sister’s, or even like that of another person altogether. Through this shift, the subject of memory becomes unstable, and the boundary between self and other begins to blur.
Video Work: The Shape of Twin Memories, 2025
I overlay photographs of my identical twin sister and myself, transfer them onto metal plates, and hammer and punch them. Through the metalworking process, the faces gradually transform, becoming neither hers nor mine, but someone else's. Simultaneously, I layer audio recordings of me reading aloud my sister's novel Éki-su-to-ra, written during her dissociative state, over the images. I experience a strange illusion: though it should be my own voice, it gradually replaces hers.
Throughout the text, fragments of painful memories surrounding her emerge, spanning from childhood to the present. Are these “my sister's memories,” or are they “our memories”?