UN SECRET EST UN SECRET [2008]
A SECRET IS A SECRET

Ephemeral installation consisting of 484 photographs to be peeled and 300 books to be collected
213 cm x 305 cm x 92 cm

I asked people, both known and unknown, to make their own portraits. The rule was simple: enter a photo-booth, wait for the machine to throw the picture out into the world, then enclose a secret, a confidence… a four-dollar confession. I gathered identities that told both the tragic and the ordinary of everyday life: the truth of being oneself, and the lies involved at times.

I made a family portrait of strangers. 

At the opening, the public had to rip out the photos in order to discover, behind them, the person's confession: destroying identity in order to access intimacy. On the floor were 500 copies of an artist's book to take home, in which the secrets of all the participants were anonymously recorded.


Work produced as part of a residency at Ateliers Graff (Montreal)


(秘密は永遠に秘密)

剥がされる484枚の写真と回収される500冊の本からなる、儚い参加型インスタレーション
213cm x 305cm x 92cm

写真立てで自分の写真を撮り、その画像に秘密や自信を添えて郵送してもらうという参加型プロジェクト。自分自身であることの真実と、時にそれが意味する嘘という、日常生活の悲劇と平凡の両方を語る手紙を集めました。

オープニングでは、写真をはがして、その奥に隠されたその人の告白を発見してもらいました。会場には、参加者全員の秘密が匿名で記載された小さなアーティストブックが500部用意され、持ち帰ることができました。
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