When Tokyo declared its first state of emergency for COVID-19 in April 2020, I began making daily video calls with my two friends. Gradually, we switched the camera from the front-facing one (which we usually use for online meetings) to the back camera of the iPhone, so we could share whatever we were seeing at that moment, our rooms, desks, laptop screens, movies, and our neighborhoods.
‘remote collage’ is an art book that archives the images we captured as screenshots from these calls.
At that time, many people felt as if life had stopped, but we were still very much alive, quiet, present, and living our everyday lives.
Rina Kimura
Momoko Negishi
Ayari Nakamura