HIRAKI SAWA
Eight Minutes | London | 2005 | 8m 48s
single channel video | black & white | silent
Artificial landscapes, unexpected worlds, domestic and imaginary spaces interwoven, presences both felt and remembered… I work to create places, and a sense of changing, shifting perspective inside what is most familiar and commonplace. Traveling to faraway places while remaining within the confines of my own room. Keeping very still to catch a glimpse of the invisible things – creatures and other inhabitants – on the edges and in the cracks, right up close.
Courtesy of the Artist, James Cohan Gallery, New York and Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Copyright 2011
Hiraki Sawa was born in Ishikawa, Japan. He currently lives and works in London. Since 2002, Sawa has had solo exhibitions at institutions and museums the world over including Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. He has taken part in numerous group shows and international art festivals including the Lyon Biennial 2003, France, the Yokohama Triennial 2005, Japan, Ars Electronica 2007 in Linz, Austria, Busan Biennial 2008, Korea and the Asia Pacific Triennial 2009 in Birsbane, Australia. He is represented by James Cohan Gallery, New York and Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo.
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