Forgetting Home/Making Souvenirs
Business Overview
In this project, we conducted a workshop to use photography as an act to "forget well" rather than to "remember". Participants take photos of things they are most likely to forget in their daily lives and create keychain shaped souvenirs. The purpose of this program is to consider forgetting and how memories are handled through photography and production.
The workshop included lectures on the act of taking photos, the etymology of the word "souvenir," and the sharing of photos among the participants. By combining filming, production, and dialogue, it became a place to empirically examine the relationship between memory and forgetting.
- Period of Activity / Project
- [Workshop and screening of works] Saturday, November 29, 2025 - Sunday, November 30
[Opening of archive website] Tuesday, November 25, 2025 - Wednesday, December 31 - Venues
- 【ワークショップ・作品上映】バックパックブックス＆omiyage 2F（東京都世田谷区）
【アーカイブWebサイトの公開】オンライン（https://omiyage-wo-tsukuru.pages.dev/）
Profile
[Kazuya Matsuhashi]
Born in Niigata Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Advanced Art Expression, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. After graduating from university, he worked at a welfare office and now works at a video production company.
With an interest in the expression of the individual in words and body, he creates works using media such as images and theater. In recent years, he has also appeared in plays.