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.....This
is apparently a beautiful piece. Snapshots of a mother & an infant are projected
on the wall. The young mother was Idemitsu herself. She used old color photographs
of her family album. Each image is switched every about ten minutes. A mother
lifts a baby up in her arms. It sucks its mother's milk. They look into eyes
each other. An innocent smile of the baby. Between those perfect happy scenes,
black & white images of the mother who has come to herself and wears an ambivalent
look are inserted.
The
glass crib is set beside the wall. The spotlight from the ceiling falls on
the crib, whose crystal twinkle in the dimly-lit room gives rise to the sacred
atmosphere of an alter there. On the other hand, the crib's front side was
engraved with the cross, which clearly evokes an image of the coffin. The
crib, a blessed alter of the motherhood is at the same time the death-bed,
where mothers bury their selves as individual women. Complicatedly, a sweet
devotional death like that is apt to enchant women...
Idemitsu puts the text which was extracted from Elisabeth Bad inter's L' amour
en plus on each projected image;
........ Motherhood is a gift and not an instinct as we have been led to believe....
Severe messages woven into beautiful images. This is Mako Idemitsu's style
and her theme is both women's ordinary & daily happiness and their suffocating
feelings, which are back to back with each other.
Mayumi Kagawa, critic (the E-trans , April 2001 pp108-109)
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