I don't really plan to make things. It often occurs organically within the process of my everyday, and therefore, I find it difficult to distinguish art and life.

 

My work consists of visual documentation of mundane and banal things: my boyfriend, parents, flat, walk to the station and news footage. Camera allows me to see the then unseen and keeps the past as something continuous to now. My brain is often captured by the past moment, like when my brother in Japan got married without telling me. Camera and documentation allow me to stay there for a while. When I am able to leave that moment is when I finish editing the footage to make it into one piece of film, which I consider as my understanding of the event. Camera’s machinery and objective nature makes me aware of my presence too. It zooms up, shakes, poses and moves all with my hands not by itself. Such movements are sometimes subconscious and only found by camera. I then have a little remoteness to myself at the time when I was documenting; I am a viewer of my work and myself as well.

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​Contact - mikako.suetake@gmail.com

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