Exhibition Information

Descending Water5
2020 97.5x97.5cm

Descending Water1
2020 97.5x97.5cm

Descending Water3
2020 97.5x97.5cm

Descending Water4
2020 97.5x97.5cm

			The exhibition title ‘We Don’t Watch the Water Go Down’ means that people don’t look directly at disabled people, compared to the way they normally look down when they lower the toilet, which is the ideal the writer’s brother does.


Artist's note

People with disabilities are often buried under the eyes of society. Society revolves around ‘ordinary’ people. Most people have nothing to do with disabled people. It is not easy for a disabled person to go outside. Let's turn our eyes to the families around them. Just as disabled people exist, there are people who have disabled people as a family. What about the life of a disabled family? They all live different lives, but the author, as an older sister with an autistic brother, tries to talk about the personal life in which the writer lives on.

The exhibition title ‘We Don’t Watch the Water Go Down’ means that people don’t look directly at disabled people, compared to the way they normally look down when they lower the toilet, which is the ideal the writer’s brother does.

The writer refers to each other’s face by saying the words "eyes, nose, mouth and ears" with his brother who can’t speak properly. They are born under the same parents and live in the same country, but they have no common language. Beyond language, through sensation, and by the fingertips, they communicate.