gm ten would like to inform about our latest project by Ai Sasaki, ‘sketch of everyday’ - her ongoing slide show with her everyday sketches. The slide will be up-dated everyday with a new sketch of her surrounding and it will be shown at our gallery space.
Ai Sasaki have experienced artist in residency many times both nationally and internationally. She has an interest in ‘views’ that can be found as she moves or walks across places. Sasaki is soon going to Australia for 6 months for her next residency, and participating an exhibition ‘Immanent landscape’ in Melbourne with other rising 7 Japanese and Australian artists. We imagine her connecting ‘views’ that will be recollected from her everyday environment, to the ‘views’ that can be found in the coming new land.
Please enjoy the process of individual sketch’s forming a sequence of slide show.
| [Period] | 18 April (sun) – 9 May (sun), 2010 |
| [Open] | 12-8 (weekdays), 12-6 (sat & sun) |
| [Closed] | Tuesday, Thursday 29 April (public holiday) |
| [Venue] | gm ten →more information |
| level 3, Sanwa building 2, 4-1-7 Azabu Juban, Minato-ku, Tokyo | |
Azabu Juban Station on the Nanboku or O-edo lines. Take exit 4 to street level, turn back left, cross street by pharmacy, and then right. 3rd floor of the building before the yellow parking lot sign. |
Recently, I was making maps at work.
It was to trace minor details of a town by referring to its picture photographed aerially.
The aerial point of view brought me a realization of some sort. It differs from our familiar image of a town, viewed from side.
To live in a new town is similar to gain an aerial point of view.
To move across places is a very simple way to view things at angles different from the usual.
The fresh sensation might be soon familiarized and forgotten but it would not be forgotten that there is a world shaped differently from the world we see now.
Wherever we are, we can remember it, as many times as we like.
So, we just keep finding a new discovery in our everyday scenery.
That is how I come to walk and sketch my everyday places…to discover my own ‘aerial’ point of view.
Ai Sasaki
Ai Sasaki
Born in 1976, Osaka. With painting or installation with familiar materials, she visualizes a word which might be recalled from our fundamental ‘memory’ deep in our mind. In recent years, she has been actively producing intricate and magnificent wall drawings with sugar which depict houses, mountains, or old patterns, and appearing as a mural of accumulated an individual’s power. The works will, however, only remain in viewer’s memories as it is seen within limited period then destroyed.