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Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and Ends with the Sunsetting, 2025


Remaining items from Sei Junior High School (furniture, teaching materials,
musical instruments, fossils, etc.), electrical appliances (light bulbs, television,
electric fan, etc.), complete solar power generation system including solar panels
removed from a disaster-affected site
dimensions variable
Technical Cooperation: MK-SOLTEC co.,ltd.

Setouchi Triennale 2025, Project Seijima "SAY YES" (JP)
April 18 – May 25, 2025

一日は、朝陽と共に始まり、夕陽と共に終わる, 2025


瀬居中の残留品(備品・教材・楽器・化石など)、電化製品(電球・テレビ・扇風機など)、
被災撤去によるソーラーパネルを含む太陽光発電システム一式
技術協力:株式会社エムケイソルテック

瀬戸内国際芸術祭2025 / 瀬居島プロジェクト「SEY YES」
2025年4月18日 – 5月25日

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting


This work is an installation powered by solar energy and composed of everyday discarded items.
The solar panels installed outdoors are connected to a unique off-grid solar power system that does not store electricity.
As a result, various appliances such as lamps and fans directly reflect the current weather conditions,
making visible the limitations of the energy we are able to produce.

Among the remaining items from Sei Junior High School, which closed last year,
are artifacts such as octopus pots retrieved from the nearby seabed by fishermen and fossils,
including those of mammoths. These objects, now part of the artwork,
resonate with the everyday scenes once found in the classrooms,
while also evoking the long and complex history of this place - shaped by tectonic shifts,
land reclamation, and the lives of those who have inhabited it.

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting


本作品は、日用不用品と太陽光によるインスタレーション作品です。
屋外に設置されたソーラーパネルは、発電した電気をためない独自の太陽光発電システムに接続されています。

そのため、ランプや扇風機など様々な電化製品は、その日その時の天候をつぶさに反映し、
私たちが作り出すことのできるエネルギーの限界値を可視化します。

昨年閉校した瀬居中の残留品には、漁師が周辺の海底から引揚げた蛸壺やマンモスなどの化石も含まれています。
作品の一部となったそれらの品々は、教室で営まれた日常風景と重なりながら、
地殻変動や埋立ての歴史など、この場所と人々との長きに渡る変遷の歴史を奏でます。

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Archive for the series Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and Ends with the Sunsetting, since 2012


Alongside archival footage of this ongoing project - presented in various countries including Germany, the United States, and Taiwan - this exhibition features The Chair Person, an early work created in Salzwedel, Germany.

Begun in 2012, this series originates from the artist’s personal realization: although raised in Hiroshima and educated through peace programs that strongly opposed nuclear weapons, her own comfortable and convenient lifestyle was not unrelated to nuclear power̶another form of nuclear energy.

The Chair Person, embodying the layered histories and communities of different locations, also connects to Hiroshima’s challenges of loss, testimony, and the transmission of memories related to its history of devastation.

《一日は、朝陽と共に始まり、夕陽と共に終わる》アーカイブ, 2012-


これまでにドイツやアメリカ、台湾など様々な国で取り組んできた本作のアーカイブ映像と共に、最初期にドイツ・ザルツウェーデル市で制作した「椅子の人」を展示します。

2012年より開始した本シリーズは、広島出身の作家が核兵器の否定という平和教育を受けてきたにも関わらず、豊かで便利な暮らしが、同じ核エネルギーを使用する原子力発電所とは無縁ではなかったことを実感した体験に起因しています。

また、様々な土地固有の歴史と人々を内包する椅子の人は、失われゆく証言者や継承といった広島の課題・被災の歴史にも繋がっています。

Each Day Begins with the Sunrising and ends with the Sunsetting

Technical Cooperation:
株式会社エムケイソルテック

Photos by:
Ken Kato

Archival Video:
Atsushi Fukunaga