hiraki sawa was born in ishikawa, japan, in 1977. currently, he lives and works in london. the artist creates poetic, ephemeral dreamscapes that focus on making visible the realm of imagination. using toys, books and other household objects as props and backdrops, hiraki produces environments that, when projected onto large screens, take on a dreamlike quality. hiraki uses video and animation as mediums for language; he combines everyday images with dramatic ones to create a hyper, but still tangible dissociation.
in dwelling, sawa creates a dreamlike universe inside a nondescript apartment. dwelling follows the dramatic slow and solemn flight patterns of roaring miniaturized boeings, airbuses, concordes, jet planes, and commuter aircrafts as if documenting chaotic airport traffic. we become involved in the video unconsciously, and experience a world where you are not you, objects are not objects…
the black&white video begins with a single shot of the top-floor windows in a nondescript london apartment building, which could be just about anywhere in the world. the video takes place entirely in sawa’s london apartment. he took still shots of different areas of his apartment and superimposed upon them animated images of various toy airplanes taking off; cruising about the rooms; and landing on a table, floor, bathtub, refrigerator, and bed…
he mixes reality with dreams, creating a modern day alice in wonderland. he dissociates time and space and melts existence with destruction…
sawa also uses metaphors such as carpets to plants or the snow. reality and dreams are inextricably woven together…
works: eight minutes(2005) |bluefloor(2005)| passer-by (2004) |going places sitting down (2004)| between (2004)| inhere (2004) |airliner (2003) | elsewhere (2003) | migration (2003) | spotter (2002) | dwelling (2002).
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