Death is perhaps the only image which simultaneously fulfils and devastates all the others; Shigeko Kubota films himself watching death at work on his father who is suffering from cancer. Around this focus of suffering and loss, she attem pts to rediscover the reality of a lost figure, images from "before" which are propelled into television screens within television screens: the one that she watched with her father during his illness and the one which she is now watching and which isolates her.

In this tape, the artist creates a strange relationship, simultaneously repulsive and fusional, between the sources, inventing an imaginary, hybrid television which itself sabotages its own variety programmes through moments of reality.

This fragment of a filmed diary is typical of Shigeko Kubota's work: a complex fiction oscillating between her own personal story and reflection on technology, examining the question of what remains of the image after death.

Stéphanie Moisdon