Paradise Air

《Paradise Air》 是一件錄像裝置作品，創作於日本千葉的藝術駐留期間。作品拍攝地點 Paradise AIR 原本是一間於 1980 年代結業的情愛酒店，後來被改建成藝術家駐留空間。它位於建築物的二樓，而一樓則是一間柏青哥賭博店。這個場地同時承載着親密、秘密、慾望、成癮、消失與暫時停留的氣息。

在駐留期間，這座曾經作為情愛酒店的建築，逐漸觸發藝術家關於童年的家庭記憶：父親長年的賭博習慣、家中被成人情緒籠罩的氣氛、圍繞親密與性而來的羞恥，以及身體痛楚如何在家庭之間被繼承。淡黃而帶有尼古丁痕跡的牆壁、微微搖晃的窗簾、密閉的房間與殘留的慾望痕跡，成為進入那些未曾被完整說出的記憶的方法。

錄像被放置在一個重構的童年家庭片段之中播放。一張皮梳化與紙製電視框、紙製電視櫃、紙製廁紙、紙製遙控器，以及其他手製紙物件共同組成一個家居記憶場景。這些脆弱的紙製重構物既像熟悉的家庭用品，也提醒我們記憶本身是局部、暫時、容易被撕裂的。

作品在情愛酒店的空間與藝術家的家庭歷史之間來回移動。童年時意外撞見父母親密的瞬間、在成人情緒陰影下長大的經驗，以及多年後抵達挪威第一天便因痔瘡接受治療的身體記憶，透過旁白與安靜的影像被編織在一起。身體在此成為羞恥、疾病、移民與繼承而來的痛楚被存放和重新觸發的地方。

透過建築、身體與記憶的重疊，《Paradise Air》 思考過去如何在不同空間中被反覆重演。作品回到痛楚，並不是為了再次經歷痛苦，而是為了重新命名，讓那些被壓抑的記憶找到新的出口。在曾經的情愛酒店、樓下的賭博場所、童年的家與疼痛的身體之間，裝置追問：療癒是否也許始於重新學會呼吸？

Paradise Air is a video installation made during an artist residency in Chiba, Japan, at Paradise AIR, a former love hotel that closed in the 1980s and has since been transformed into an artist residency space. Located on the second floor of a building whose first floor is occupied by a pachinko gambling parlour, the site holds an unusual density of intimacy, secrecy, leisure, addiction, and disappearance.

During the residency, the architecture of the former hotel began to trigger memories from the artist’s childhood: her father’s long history of gambling, the emotional atmosphere of her family home, the shame surrounding intimacy and sexuality, and the bodily inheritance of pain. The nicotine-stained walls, curtains, sealed rooms, and lingering traces of desire became a way to enter memories that had never fully been spoken.

The video is presented inside a reconstructed fragment of the artist’s childhood home. A leather sofa is placed with a paper TV frame, paper TV table, paper toilet paper, paper remote control, and other handmade paper objects. These fragile paper reconstructions turn the screening environment into a domestic memory set. They resemble familiar household items, yet their material weakness suggests that memory itself is partial, temporary, and easily torn.

The work moves between the space of the love hotel and the artist’s own family history. Childhood scenes of accidentally witnessing parental intimacy, growing up under the weight of adult emotions, and later developing hemorrhoids upon arriving in Norway are brought together through voiceover and silent footage. The body becomes a site where shame, illness, migration, and inherited pain are stored and reactivated.

Through this layering of architecture, body, and memory, Paradise Air reflects on how the past is repeatedly reenacted in new spaces. The work does not return to pain in order to relive it, but to rename it, to let repressed memories find another exit. Between the former love hotel, the gambling parlour, the artist’s childhood home, and the body in pain, the installation asks whether healing might begin with learning how to breathe again.

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Cinematographer: Yuji Fan
Production Assistant: Ayumi Seki