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Rikuto Fujimoto
Resewing Her Life

This installation is inspired by something my grandmother once told me—that her dream had been to become a pianist.
Born in the early 1900s and raised in a patriarchal society, my grandmother, like many older Japanese women of her generation who could sew as a matter of course, often engaged in sewing as part of her domestic responsibilities. To me, as a child, she looked as if she were playing a musical instrument when she sewed.
In this work, the sewing machine functions as the instrument she once “performed” on, while the piano exists merely as a device that echoes the sound of the sewing machine.
The lace tablecloth under the sewing machine was purchased from a female bobbin lace maker during my visit to Sri Lanka. That lace-making tradition also carries a deep connection to a history of oppressive rule.
The title of the work, Her, refers not only to my grandmother but also to the many unknown women who lived under similar circumstances. Through this piece, I aim to recall their voices and, by raising them within the reverberations of sound, evoke the historical contexts they inhabited.

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Joe Browning

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