A body of 48
Photo: Teo Swee An
ABOUT
"A body of 48" (2025)
My late grandmother wrote a journal about loss of her first husband by atomic bomb on 15th August 1945. She left me many memory and I wished to explore how culture, hometown, history and memory are accumulated in one’s body. The work aims to challenge to interpret the invisible yet profound one’s cultural and historical identity created over generations through movement and media images.
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My grandmother was 28 years old and her first husband was 33.
She remarried and my mother was born in 1948.
My mother married my father when she was 23.
I was born in 1977 and my 48 years old body is here on 6 August 2025.
80 years after that day.
This dream like memory is unlike dream.
ARTIST NOTE
This work was created on 15th August 2025 at Poh Chang Academy of Arts, Bangkok Thailand.
I would like to pay my condolence to and commemorate all deceased spirits of the wars, conflicts and genocides past and present.
No more Hiroshima
No more Nagasaki
No more wars.
CREATORS
Written by
Chizue Shigeta
Edited and performed by
Taka Takiguchi
PRODUCTION HISTORY
First exhibition
7 August 2025
Poh Chang Academy of Arts
Bangkok, Thailand
Showing
26 August 2025
Malacca, Malaysia
as a part of MAP Festival
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
"A body of 48" was created by the support of Poh Chang Academy of Artsas part of 19th Poh Chang Internatinal Art Festival and Art Workshop in Thailand 2025
