Terrain - Hiraki Sawa Solo Exhibition
Terrain - 澤拓 個展
2015.04.11-2015.05.16
Terrain - 澤拓 個展
2015.04.11-2015.05.16
Hiraki Sawa often blends realist images of, for example, aircrafts and carousels with dreamlike scenes in his video artworks. Adopting a unique style of creation, he not only presents pretty fantastic and poetic fragments of his quotidian life but also explores the chaotic state amidst memories and realities. His early works attracted considerable attention and discussion, and were exhibited in various international biennials and triennials as well as in Taipei Fine Arts Museum and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. As a result, the Taiwanese audience is no stranger to his works.
Hiraki Sawa’s first solo exhibition in Taiwan is entitled TERRAIN. This term can be understood as a realm with its boundary. He developed the conception of this exhibition from the experience of watching his mirror reflection at his tender age. At that moment, he firstly sensed his own existence and formed his subjectivity when he saw himself as an integral body in the mirror, which made him a little bit terrified yet slightly excited. This conception echoes his recent work Envelope, in which he installed three large mirrors in different positions at the exhibition venue and let these mirrors reflect the projected images. The viewers can understand the laterally reversed texts only by looking at the mirror images. The artist separated the external real world from the virtual one in the mirrors. He is deeply fascinated with the question that whether his mirror image and the reflected video are real or virtual. Hiraki Sawa’s works have been not only creating the viewing experience in which the virtual and the real intersect but also providing a strange yet fascinating atmosphere. Situating the viewers in the “terrain” amidst the virtual and the real, he expects them to contemplate whether visual satisfaction or spiritual internalization defines the existence of a human being. In addition to a two-channel video work, the exhibition also presents his magnum opuses such as Did I ? and Sleeping Machine II. The art forum will take place at 3 p.m. on 11 April 2015, followed by the opening party at 4 p.m. Hiraki Sawa will attend these events, sharing his career trajectory and experience with the visitors. We sincerely invite you to this elaborately organized exhibition, where you will be inspired by the artist’s ingenuity. 澤拓的錄像作品經常將寫實的影像結合夢境般的畫面,融入飛機與旋轉木馬元素等等,以其獨特的風格呈現充滿幻想與詩意的日常片段,探討記憶與真實的混沌狀態。早期的創作便獲得眾多的注目及討論,先後受邀於國際各大雙年、三年展展出,他的作品也曾於台北市立美術館、國立台灣美術館受邀展出,相信對台灣觀眾早已不陌生。 澤拓的首次台灣個展「TERRAIN」,此一字可解釋為領域及界限,其構想源自於澤拓年幼時自覺靈魂出竅看到自己樣貌的經驗,歷經那個能看到自己是一個完整的軀體,初步意識到自我存在、人格形成的時刻,雖然感到些許地恐懼卻又隱隱的歡欣興奮。這正與近期的焦點新作《Envelope》相呼應。藝術家以三面放置展場不同位置的巨大鏡面,運用鏡像折射原理反射出投影畫面,觀眾必須透過鏡子中的影像才得以了解影片中左右顛倒的文字訊息。藝術家藉由鏡子劃分了外在的現實世界跟裡面的領域,鏡像中的自己以及反射的錄像是虛是實令他深感著迷。 澤拓的作品始終呈現一種虛實交錯截然不同的觀看經驗,也創造出一種詭譎卻又迷人的氛圍。他希望觀眾從介於虛幻與真實之間的「TERRAIN」,思考一個人的存在是要藉由視覺觀看的滿足亦或是心靈上自我的內化。展場中除了展出一件小型雙頻道錄像、也將展出較為人所知代表作系列中的《did I?》、《Sleeping Machine II》等。座談會將於4月11日下午三點開始,開幕酒會為四點,藝術家將會出席現場與大家分享創作歷程與心得,歡迎蒞臨參觀。 |