77 Days: An Experience Report portrays Sissi Kaplan’s experience of isolation, as an international traveller, then as a patient confined in hospital rooms and her apartment. Even as her loneliness intersected with great personal loss, she concocted fantasies and performances, giving free rein to both memories and reverie. In the face of enforced and eternal separation, this story reflects the human desire for connection through acts of creation.

Sissi Kaplan is a visual artist working with photography, video and text. Her work focuses on the fictionalisation of the everyday, employing solitude, emptiness and her own performing body to transfigure found situations and reveal hidden aspects of human nature. Her work has been presented at film festivals and exhibitions in Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris, Berlin, Naples, Johannesburg, and Kuala Lumpur. She lives and works in Hong Kong.

Edited by Sam I-shan
Designed by Studio Tomson