This work traces the latent flows and rhythms that underlie both the city of Paris-historically built upon wetlands-and the depths of human consciousness.
Filmed between Paris and the marshlands at the mouth of the Seine, the work brings together underwater imagery, urban landscapes, and the invisible oscillations of atomic time. By weaving together the movement of water, drifting particles, and the vibration of atoms, it creates a perceptual field where different temporal scales converge.
As the flow reaches stillness, the work shifts toward a submerged depth where memory, dream, and the unconscious begin to resonate.
Rather than approaching sustainability as the preservation of a fixed state, Sleeping Water considers it as an ongoing negotiation of relationships among life, minerals, water, and time. Within this shifting field, the work reveals a world that is fluid, interdependent, and continuously reconfiguring-where sustainability emerges as a process of attunement rather than stability.
Created at Cité internationale des arts, Paris
Founded by Institut français, Chishima Foundation Osaka
