Weather twin

An installation in which present and past weather data activate light, sound, movement, smell, and moving images within the exhibition space. Real-time weather conditions gathered by an outdoor observation device and past weather data recorded in distant places are layered within the same space. The voices and songs of twins are connected to the unstable sameness and difference produced by weather, suggesting a state that is both two and one. Weather and twins are treated not as fixed individuals, but as presences that approach, shift, and overlap depending on the situation.

In Weather twin, real-time weather data gathered by an outdoor observation device activates light, sound, moving images, movement, and air-related devices placed both inside and outside the exhibition space. Past weather data from specific regions, including islands in the Philippines strongly affected by typhoons, also influences the installation. Here, weather is treated not only as a present condition, but also as something that connects distant times and places through the same parameters.

The work is also connected to the voices and relationship of the artist’s twin nieces. At the moment when past and present weather data correspond, the twins’ singing voices become unison, and the space is illuminated at its brightest. The title comes from a meteorological expression referring to a state in which the climates of different regions become similar.

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