Jokanaan
Aya Momose
Tokyo
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Jokanaan
Aya Momose
Tokyo
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The severed head of John the Baptist is lying on a silver platter, but Salome ecstatically begs him to look at her. In her video installation ‘Jokanaan’, Aya Momose reworks this famous opera scene: while a man moves his mouth and body along to the intense opera soundtrack, his movements are digitized using motion-capture techniques and transferred to the computer-generated fantasy figure of a woman. The juxtaposition of these two bodies and their gestures creates the illusion of a tense love affair. But where are the emotions located?
Aya Momose’s video works ‘Jokanaan’ (2019) and ‘Social Dance’ (2019) will be shown in the Incubation Pod, together with her performance and installation ‘Performing Acupuncture’ (2021).
Photo: ©ToLoLo studio / Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee
About the Artist(s)
Aya Momose began her artistic practice with oil painting. She currently develops performances and captures them on video, rethinking the moving image itself. Her recent work focuses on bodies, interrogating themes of sexuality and gender. Her project ‘Exchange Diary’, developed in collaboration with Im Heung-soon, was selected for the Korea Cinemascape section of the 20th Jeonju International Film Festival. Momose’s works have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and the Yokohama Museum of Art.