Momose Aya

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Exchange Diary 2019

The Exchange Diary is a collaborative film project of two artists, Im Heung-soon and Momose Aya, since 2015. Having exchanged video clips recorded with the iPhone, the artists edited and recreated each other´s work in their own interpretation. The film explores private and social issues surrounding the artists with asynchronous images and sound, and blended time and space.
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Social Dance 2019

A documentary that re-enacts a woman's conversation with her ex-partner – depicts the discrepancies present in the visual mode of communication that is sign language. Using an interview that she conducted with a deaf female dancer, the artist wrote a narrative based on the interviewee's personal experience, which became the basis of the work. In the video, a woman lies in bed talking through sign language to her ex-partner.
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Flos Pavonis 2023

In Flos Pavonis, Aya Momose follows a film correspondence format, which has been used traditionally in Japanese diary films. This film narrates the ongoing repressive control over the female body in two culturally distant countries, Poland and Japan, during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Flos pavonis” is a herb that was used as an abortifacient by enslaved Black women with unwanted pregnancies under colonial rule. In 2021, Poland had just made abortion illegal, and in Japan people’s activities continued to be limited by the pandemic. A story of their own bodies being oppressed is told through the email correspondence of two women in these countries. This work (by the up-and-coming visual and performance artist Momose) centers on a sense of alienation in gendered and sexualized society.
Ayano Momose

Ayano Momose

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The Washing Machine 1999

Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works part-time as a store keeper and repairman. One day, a woman comes to the store drenched from the rain. She is Setsuko, the only daughter of the store's president and a returnee. Since then, Setsuko often comes to the store. Kizaki becomes concerned about Setsuko, but Setsuko has something to do with Oshi, a senior who used to work at the store...