Project ‘Doors’

Since 2013
Video installation

This work is an ongoing annual art project begun in 2013.

Each year, I record a performance in which I open a door and enter through it. A different door is selected every year, and the videos are edited together in the same sequence.

Wearing a simple black dress and performing minimal movements allows the action to continue regardless of age or time.

The work quietly reveals the accumulation of time between past and present.

Due to COVID-19, the 2020 edition was filmed at home.

1, 2013,Kyoto Art Center
2, 2014,Vermont Studio Center, US
3, 2015,GM-1 Gallery,Nara
4, 2016,FRISE,Hamburg
5, 2017,Tenjinyama Art Studio
6, 2018,Arts and Media Labo at Osaka University
7, 2019,CAS,Osaka
8, 2020, at home,Osaka
9, 2021,Super Studio Kitakagaya,Osaka
10, 2022,MAWA,Winnipeg,Canada
11, 2023,Art Omi, NY
12, 2024,OAG Art Center Kobe,Kobe
13, 2025, AOTO Art,Hyogo

Exhibition History

2013 ‘Project “Mirrors”’, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
2020 ‘Diary 2020’, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2024 ‘Unhouse’ OAG ART CENTER, Kobe