Hiraki Sawa
Hiraki Sawa was born in Ishikawa, Japan, in 1977 and lives and works in London. In 2003, he earned an MA in sculpture from the Slade School of Fine Art in London after receiving a BFA in sculpture from the University of East London in 2000. Well known for creating his films in his own apartment, Sawa transforms domestic interiors into settings for musings on the mechanics of motion and fantastically surreal events. Using hand-drawn and digital animation techniques, Sawa amplifies the mundane, breathing life into static objects.
Solo exhibitions and screenings of Sawa's work have been shown at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; the Hammer Museum; the Frist Center for the Arts, Nashville; and the Hayward Gallery in London.
The Dissolve
A paradigm shift in contemporary art is rare and hard to recognize at its inception, but that is what curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco did in The Dissolve, SITE SANTA FE’s Eighth International Biennial. The curators presented a new sensibility in the art of our time, a mingling of up-to-the-minute technology and traditional visual arts (painting, drawing, and sculpture) with dance, music, and film. The fundamental form of this new work was animation, uniting the technological (the camera) with the handmade (drawing).
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