Before The Last Breath

Exhibition Curatorial Statement
Written by Kobe KO (Curator)
Voice Over by Jasmine Cheung

BGM: NABOWA-Day Break (Hiraku Yamamoto, end of the time MIX)

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Hello stranger!
I want to share with you a story that doesn't just belong to us.
The Last Judgment, Mayan Calendar, Millennium, Planetary Collision, Nuclear Catastrophe……
None of the eschatological prophecies has destroyed us. Unfortunately, the great wheel is still turning day by day.
Before all this, we never knew the feeling of being trapped. Trapped in both our physical bodies and emotions. We have experienced revolution, white terror and pandemic. We are fearless and at the same time extremely afraid. We have never once had the need to imagine a life in exile, and the term "lockdown" was something that belonged to the bygone era. Whilst we were dismissing doomsday as superstition or some fantastical belief, it has in fact crept up on us.
When daily life is no longer daily, 
inertia will be failed;
When we are in aphasia, at least we can still understand.
Do you have the courage to uncover what is entwining you in the midnight dream?
Doomsday is like poems, or maybe fables as well as present.
People imagine that ‘the end’ is always like a love tragedy, just like the majestic scene in the movie. However, when the concepts of human invention can no longer carry any meaning, no matter how long the history has gone, it can only be ended in an instant. Even ‘time’ will no longer exist, maybe, an ultimate silence is closer to the original truth of the end.
Hey! Have you heard?
When life is at its last breath, the auditory sense is the last to go.
The song of the doomsday is reverberating in my mind,
the last note of the key pressed disappears with the after rhyme,
the silence that followed slowly filled the body.
Ah,
I'm still here.
Thank you for reading to the end, before the last breath……

Before The Last Breath

<Please Hold My Hands (we will find the way)>

2019 - 10 Tokyo

Tsietsi

it was a band rehearsal day, I sang a song Unchained My Heart that original by Tomii Chan with him.
to upload as a record, just a record.

viiijasmine