At
a very central location, the Tokamachi Center Cross, a screen in the form
of a kimono was floating in the air.During the day the Kimono-Screen was moved by the wind and therefore caught people’s attention. At night it was lit from behind by a video beamer and was filled with images.
Inside the kimono faces of people of Japanese origin appeared. Children, women, men were portrayed, dressed as they wished to be photographed. The faces appearing and disappearing inside the kimono were looking into the public space of Tokamachi.
The images appeared slowly out of the white of the fabric, became very visible, and then disappeared into the white of the fabric again. It was as if the kimono was breathing the images in and out, again and again.
The people of the present in their every-day clothes and the traditional form of the kimono were melting into each other. Past and present became one organic entity.
The work posed the questions of where we come from, where we are going, and what we gain and what we lose on our way.
