Mexico’s northern Yucatán Peninsula is dotted with natural springs called cenotes. Important sources of water for the ancient Maya, they are still used today by people with roots in Mayan civilization to collect water for daily use. As places linking this world to the afterlife, they are said to have been the sites of many human sacrifices, and their profound connections with people’s lives have persisted into the modern day. In the imagery filmed by the artist as she descended into the cenotes herself there emerges a recurrent awareness of those who fell into the waters, presented from a storyteller’s perspective. Through the concurrent depiction of present-day inhabitants’ faces and way of life, the viewer is faced with the living as well as the dead. An attempt to give form to collective memory through filmic expression.

Date: 2.16 Sun. 15:00-｜Q&A: ODA Kaori

Venue: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum 1F Hall

Ticket: ¥550 [advance] / ¥1,100 [same day]