Hiraki Sawa, Lineament, 2012. Video still. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York
Hiraki Sawa
Figment
22 March – 27 April 2013
at James Cohan Gallery, New York
Lineament (2012), the central installation, is an immersive video and sound piece originally commissioned by the Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo. This work is a continuation of Figment, a larger project initiated in 2009, from which this exhibition takes its name. Figment so far comprises three ambitious and increasingly surreal videos about the phenomenon of amnesia. The series takes its inspiration from, and is an ongoing means of processing, the sudden-onset and complete memory loss of one of the artist’s friends.
Lineament is a two-channel video installation in which a male protagonist navigates a white apartment. Like the intricate clock-like mechanisms that appear before and around him, his memories unravel and snap back together. The grooves of an LP record uncoil to become a line, then travel around in this liberated but perhaps indecipherable form. The audio— performed by Dale Berning & Ute Kanngiesser— is a palindrome, with a modified turntable in the gallery space playing a record forward and then backwards. [read the full text here]
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Hiraki Sawa, Lineament, 2012. Video still. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York
Hiraki Sawa, For Saya, 2011. Video still. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York
Hiraki Sawa, Souvenir Study 4, 2012. Video still. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York