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Hiraki Sawa, absent, 2018
Hiraki Sawa, absent, 2018
Hiraki Sawa, absent, 2018
Hiraki Sawa, absent, 2018
Hiraki Sawa, absent, 2018
Hiraki Sawa, absent, 2018
Hiraki Sawa, absent, 2018
Hiraki Sawa, absent, 2018
Hiraki Sawa, absent, 2018
Hiraki Sawa, absent, 2018

Hiraki Sawa

absent, 2018
Single channel video (4 channel sound, colour)
4'37”
Edition of 8 + 2 A.P.
Copyright The Artist
USD 15,000.-

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さわのビデオ作品は、繊細に構成された夢のような風景を作り出します。そこでは、人、モノ、動物が、現実と想像の世界を行ったり来たりし、観る者を詩的かつ心理的な世界に誘います。 2018年のビデオ作品《absent》は、異種交配によって生まれたキャラクターたちが物語を構成しています。鳥の羽が生えたスプーンが荒涼とした風景を横切るように羽ばたき、足の生えたはさみが円を描いてぐるぐると歩き回ります。また、ティーセットたちが華やかな部屋を行進する一方、その部屋の壁はゆっくりと解体されてゆきます。 さわは、見慣れた風景を奇妙なものに変容させます。それは、記憶喪失によって錯綜する記憶と現実の不在/重複/再解釈を反映するためのプロセスです。
さわのビデオ作品は、繊細に構成された夢のような風景を作り出します。そこでは、人、モノ、動物が、現実と想像の世界を行ったり来たりし、観る者を詩的かつ心理的な世界に誘います。 2018年のビデオ作品《absent》は、異種交配によって生まれたキャラクターたちが物語を構成しています。鳥の羽が生えたスプーンが荒涼とした風景を横切るように羽ばたき、足の生えたはさみが円を描いてぐるぐると歩き回ります。また、ティーセットたちが華やかな部屋を行進する一方、その部屋の壁はゆっくりと解体されてゆきます。 さわは、見慣れた風景を奇妙なものに変容させます。それは、記憶喪失によって錯綜する記憶と現実の不在/重複/再解釈を反映するためのプロセスです。

Literature

Below text is an excerpt from: https://www.projectfulfill.com/absent---hiraki-sawa-solo-exhibition.html

Hiraki Sawa’s video works create a delicately composed dream-like landscape, where people, objects and animals drift in and out of a series of real and imagined settings, existing within their own sense of logic, inviting the viewer to embark on a poetic, psychological journey into a new state of surrealism. The 2018 video work Absent features a cast of hybrid characters that populate an uncertain narrative; spoons sprouting bird’s wings fly across a bleak landscape, a ghostly pair of scissors paces continuously in a circle, a set of teacups march across an ornate room, where the walls are slowly drifting apart. Sawa transforms the familiar into the strange, a process that reflects the intricacies of memory loss; the unexpected lapses, absences, overlaps, and reinterpretations of memory and reality.
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