Hiraki Sawa, Within, 2010
Single-channel video, stereo sound, 7:35. ⓒ Hiraki Sawa
Hiraki Sawa explores time, memory, migration, and his own position within the world. Watching a friend who suddenly goes through amnesia, the artist’s inspiration is drawn from lifetime memories from childhood memories of playing on a rocking horse to his identity as an immigrant outside living between two cultures. His delicate films, blending fantasy and reality, are composed of still images of everyday spaces with partially moving video. His films feature a rocking horse and airplane as recurring motifs, symbolizing landscapes in memory that move between reality and imagination, transcending time and space.
