Hiraki Sawa
Memoria paralela, 2019
2 channel video (color, sound)
11' 35"
Edition of 5
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For the past decade Sawa has been working on a trilogy as well as a collection of shorter studies exploring the emotional and psychological landscape of amnesia, entitled Figment. The...
For the past decade Sawa has been working on a trilogy as well as a collection of shorter studies exploring the emotional and psychological landscape of amnesia, entitled Figment. The series is based on the experience of his close friend, who in the summer of 2007, lay down for a short nap on the couch of his workplace, and when he woke up, he had lost his memory. The first work of the trilogy did I? (2010), portrayed memory loss as a form of erasure, while the second work Lineament (2012) describes the replacement or offsetting from one place to another through memory loss, and its connection to time. The third and final work of the trilogy, Memoria Paralela (2019), is a 2-channel video installation portraying Sawa’s friend’s current life; and is his first significant work exploring the use of text and narration. Sawa’s highly developed technique and style can be recognized through his use of reoccurring motifs, superimposed imagery, delicate soundtrack, as well as the inclusion of objects in the exhibition space.
Exhibitions
2019 "MEMORIA PARALELA" University Museum of Navarra, Spain2020 "Overlapping Circles 5 Artists Collaborate with the Collection"Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Japan
