Sawa Hiraki
eight minutes
2005
video(b+w, silent)
8min. 48sec.
courtesy: the artist and Ota Fine Arts, tokyo

Born 1977, Ishikawa, Japan. Basing his artistic production in London, Sawa uses lo-tech video animation to create poetic dreamscapes - ponderings on ideas of time and motion, innocence and alienation, dislocation and displacement.

Certain leitmotifs recur throughout the films - a child’s rocking horse (Horse (2005) made of high density polyurethane foam and aluminum), migrating animals, model jet planes - objects which play out notions of travel and nomadism, of being at home and thinking of elsewhere. Aiming to challenge our perception, the concept of nomadism and superimposing objects associated with the outside into the interior is best materialized in his highly acclaimed Dwelling, where the interior of a one-bedroom apartment is gradually swarmed with an accumulation of toy jumbo jets, eventually weaving a thick web of air traffic. Sawa currently lives and works in London.

1977年生于日本。在伦敦进行艺术创作，择拓运用低技术录像动画片创造诗歌般的幻境——思考时间和运动，天真和疏远，混乱和移动这些概念。当然，主题的重现贯穿在这些影片里——一个小孩的摇摆木马（《马》（2005），用高密度聚氨酯泡沫体和铝制作而成），迁徙动物，喷气式模型飞机——那些激发出旅行意愿以及在家里漫游却思考在别处的东西。为了挑战我们的感觉，流浪和从外到内双重增加物质的概念在他广受称赞的作品《住所》中得到了最完美的实现，这个作品中一个只拥有单间卧室的公寓逐渐被堆积满了喷气式客机玩具模型，最终编织出一个拥挤的空中交通网络。择拓目前在伦敦生活和工作。