笹本晃 - Squirrel Ways
Performance
Where is the fly swatter when I need it?
Where are my sunglasses?
Where is the hundred dollar bill that I hid in a book, which book, somewhere in this bookshelf?
Where is my first memory?
Where is my memory of first love?
I think it was when I was in the second grade.
I wrote a letter to myself in twenty years.
A letter to the future me.
It was a pinpointed future that we wrote the letter we addressed to.
But the time got fuzzy. And I don’t know when the pinpointed future, moment is.
Where is that future that I meant?
Grey zone is the imaginative zone.
When do the clothes turn to laundry?
When does a death start?
When do we stop living?
When does fish become my dinner?
When does the inside begin and the outside start?
When does the sunset start?
And when does the sunset end?
The closer the fish becomes, the line starts to lose tension.
And sometimes it will struggle up and down.
The fish will pull me to the different location at the point.
I have to change the unit.
I have to change the personality to the centimeters.
My personality changes.
I’m so aware of how thick the water is.
What is the thickness of this water?
Movie: Squirrel Ways, 2022
Installation
Information
Aki Sasamoto’s modular installation Squirrel Ways (2022) resembles a living room with hybrid partition structures. Shoji screens slide to reveal a door, shutters close, and entire walls become mobile. When these architectural elements are activated, they further reveal their surprising properties including fishing lures and sponges hidden between the double shoji screens, and countless peepholes on the door. In Squirrel Ways, Sasamoto questions the “thickness of borders” that lies between self and other, surface and bottom, life and death, constantly imagining what lies on the other side.
Exhibition History
- 2021
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“Calder Now,” Kunsthal Rotterdam
- 2022
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Aichi Triennale 2022, “Still Alive”
- 2023
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“Squirrel Ways,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
