2022.3.29 – 4.24

Hagiso, Tokyo
Installation photographs and video by Ryohei Tomita

Project: Textile Posters

Tokuko Shimizu’s textile posters were produced in conjunction with an exhibition by the artist group “Danger Museum,” consisting of Tokuko’s daughter, Miho Shimizu, and Oiven Lemberg. Her Posters III” is based on the relationship between mother and daughter that surrounds the textile posters.
　Who should we say is the author of the series of posters created by the mother based on the instructions sent by the daughter via e-mail, sometimes without regard to those instructions?
To visualize this question, Gottingham came up with the idea of photographing the backs of the posters, where the embroidery hand is visible, and the embroidered signatures on the inside of the lining. However, when Gottingham saw a mother and daughter working together to unravel the lining of the poster to reveal the backside, he decided to have them act it out in front of the camera and film it. As their hands fold in and out of each other around the textile, Gottingham captured the relationship between mother and daughter, as well as the moment when the boundaries of authorship blur.