Aichi Triennale 2019

You would have gone there to see them by then is exhibited in two adjacent rooms in the Ito Residence, a house built in the Edo period. Items in the exhibition space include a screen, a double-sided mirror and an empty frame, while a camera is installed in the garden.
While walking from one room to the next, the visitor notices the visual mechanism that is an integral part of this work. The boundary between the spaces in front and behind the mirror is blurred, and the visitor gets confused as to which space he or she is actually looking at. Displayed on the screen is a combination of real-time video and prerecorded footage of a performer.
Score a and Score b are two scores depicting traces of that performer's movements, put up facing each other and vertically inverted as one hanging scroll in an alcove.
Audio Guide: Inside and Outside, a work that is to be listened to on the earthen floor, contains environmental sounds recorded by two performers that each have a microphone in their ear, while moving away from or replacing each other. In the exhibition, these recordings are played through headphones for visitors to listen to, which means that here the visitor has the chance to experience an acoustic environment that one single human normally cannot hear.
Installations based on the presupposition that the visitor's viewpoint changes within a room as he/she is confronted with its spatial characteristics, are a general theme that the artist has been focusing on consistently for the past ten years. Referring to the "startling" effect of suddenly seeing oneself from behind, Tsuda presents a new sense of reality that emerges through media.