슌 이케조에 (Shun Ikezoe), <너의 목소리를 기다리며 (Waiting to hear from you)> (2022)

단채널 영상 / 컬러 / 사운드, 19분 작가의 출생지인 카가와현으로의 여정을 통해 제례와 풍경, 그리고 매개된 조우를 탐구한다. 팬데믹으로 인해 타인과의 접촉이 태블릿 화면으로 한정된 상황은 실존의 기술적 매개와 소외를 극명히 드러낸다. 이 개인적 서사는 일본의 역사적 ‘사설 감금’ 제도와 연결되어, 사회 구조 속에서 소외되고 은폐된 목소리들에 주목한다. 작가는 응답이 불확실한 상황에서도 말을 건네고 기다리는 행위를 통해, 보이지 않는 존재들을 위한 윤리적 공간을 확보하고자 한다.

Shun Ikezoe, Waiting to hear from you(声を待つ) (2022)

Single-channel video / Color / Sound,  8mm film / digital, 19 min (Originally created in 2022 as a three-channel video installation; re-created as a single version in 2026)

Waiting to hear from you traces a return to the artist’s birthplace in Kagawa, where personal memory unfolds through ritual, landscape, and mediated encounter. The work follows a journey that includes the Shodoshima 88 temple pilgrimage and culminates in a hospital visit, where, due to pandemic restrictions, communication takes place through a tablet screen. The encounter—marked by distance, silence, and the faint possibility of response—reflects a condition in which presence is mediated and intimacy is sustained through technological interfaces, shaped by prolonged separation and the absence of speech.

Set against this personal narrative, the work reflects on a broader social context in which voices remain unheard. Recalling a case of long-term domestic confinement, it alludes to the historical system of private confinement in Japan, where individuals with mental illness were isolated within the home under legal sanction. Within a society that continues to place responsibility for such conditions on the family, the work considers how both individuals and their families are often rendered invisible, their voices rarely reaching the outside. Through this juxtaposition, the work becomes an act of address: a gesture of speaking that is followed by waiting—holding space for a response that may or may not arrive.

슌 이케조에 (Shun Ikezoe), <(Eustoma)분명 잘 말할수 없을 거야> (2021)

단채널 영상 / 컬러 / 사운드, 13분 부재와 기억, 그리고 소멸해가는 목소리의 잔상에 대한 성찰을 담고 있다. 침묵으로 규정된 관계 속에서 타인의 목소리는 기억 속에서 희미해지나, 홈 비디오라는 기록 매체 안에서는 박제되어 존재한다. 본작은 꿈을 기억이 재생되는 장소로 설정하고, 깨어 있는 현실이 소거된 지점에서 조우할 수 있는 가능성을 묻는다. 특정 장소의 기억과 연결된 ‘에우스토마’ 꽃을 찾는 행위는 부재를 가로지르는 고요한 연결의 시도이며, 상대를 현실로 소환하려는 욕망과 꿈속의 평온을 기원하는 마음 사이의 위태로운 균형을 유지한다.

Shun Ikezoe, Eustoma(きっとうまく話せない) (2021)​

Single-channel video / Color / Sound, 13 min (Originally created in 2021 as a three-channel video installation; re-created as a single version in 2026)

Eustoma that reflects on absence, memory, and the fragile persistence of voice. The work centers on a relationship marked by silence, where a once-familiar presence is now encountered only through recollection and recorded fragments. As communication becomes impossible, memory begins to blur; the voice of the other fades in lived experience while remaining preserved in home video, creating a disjunction between past intimacy and present distance. Within this space, the work contemplates dreams as a site where memory is reproduced, raising the question of what remains accessible when the waking world recedes.

Set against the temporal rupture of hospitalization and the pandemic, the work unfolds as a belated address—an attempt to speak despite uncertainty of response. The gesture of seeking out light purple eustoma flowers, tied to a shared memory of a place once imagined together, becomes a quiet act of connection across absence. Moving between longing and restraint, the work holds a dual desire: to call the other back into wakefulness, and at the same time to allow them the peace of remaining within their dream.