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HIRAKI SAWA
Absent,
Digital single channel video with sound embedded in a vintage lantern box
13 x 10 x 4 1/2 in
33 x x cm
Edition of 8
Hiraki Sawa’s videos explore psychological landscapes, unexpected worlds and the interweaving of domestic and imaginary spaces. Populated with animals, inanimate objects and people, his characters search for their ‘place’ in the universe as he explores ideas of memory, displacement and migration.
Sawa is perhaps best known for an early animated work titled Dwelling (), completed while he was still in graduate school, in which airplanes take off, land, and travel throughout the interior space of an apartment. Gregory Volk, in the essay for an exhibition at the Hammer Museum in , wrote: “The more one spends time with the work…the more psychologically eventful these airplanes are, as they proceed on their inscrutable routes, seemingly at their own volition. They conjure a solitary apartment dweller’s drifting, multiple thoughts—a transportation in and of the mind, including random memories, hopes, nagging reminders of pressing tasks, and strange burs
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Hiraki Sawa
Hiraki Sawa is an artist that stays home. A lot. An exhibition of his work, aptly titled Six good reasons to stay at home showed six video works spanning a prolific four-year period by the young London based, Japanese artist. Going places sitting down – a large-scale three-channel colour digital video projection that faces the viewer on entering the gallery space was commissioned by the Hayward/Bloomberg Artists' Commission and is the most complex of the featured videos. Against a background of a quiet and stately bourgeois home Sawa takes us on fantastic flights of fancy.
Across the three screens wondrous things occur: on a mantelpiece a tiny, antique rocking horse rocks gently to and fro; in a half-filled hand basin rocking horses push through the choppy waters. Elsewhere, a man on a camel traverses the flat plains of a red carpet while below him in the shadow cast by the spine of leather bound books, a fleet of miniature ships set sail over a blue sea. Sawa's work takes great pleasure in the surreal possibilities generated by taking rescaled objects, often juxtaposing several fantastical elements in a single frame, and placing them in ordinary domestic environments. As such these visions of the animal kingdom and far-flung places recall the exp