 Spotter, 2003 Digital video 8 minute 20 second loop Hiraki Sawa James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition of Hiraki Sawa. He will present four new videos: "Migration", "Elsewhere", "Spotter", and "Airliner". Each video is a poetic mediation on the idea of dislocation and displacement. The juxtapositions, which he creates with simple video editing techniques, recall earlier Surrealist's collages. However, Sawa's focus is on an ever-shifting terrain of our own existence in the modern age. The ease of world travel allows one to move from culture to culture seamlessly. The airplane and re-animations of Eadweard Muybridge's locomotion studies become Sawa's metaphors for change, evolution, and alienation. "Dwelling", an earlier video by Hiraki Sawa, is currently on view in Times Square, presented by Creative Time's The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision. This work can be viewed at One Times Square on the large monitor every fifty-ninth minute of every third hour. Sawa, who is from Kanazawa, Japan, has lived in London for the last eight years. He recently graduated from the master's program at the Slade School of Art, University College in London. His work was included in the 2003 Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France. Exhibition: February 20 - March 27, 2004 Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 10 am - 6 pm James Cohan Gallery 533 West 26th Street USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +212 714 95 00 Fax +212 714 95 10 Email info@jamescohan.com www.jamescohan.com |
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