Hana Sakuma
dal 4/4/2002 al 18/5/2002
Segnalato da
4/4/2002
Hana Sakuma
The Changing Room, Stirling
From the middle through the middle. At the centre of the exhibition is a large work where extracts from second hand books are written in chalk onto a blackboard, then partially obscured. The extracts are death scenes taken from a type of popular literature that used to be read by a wide audience in Britain, but is now often discarded.
'from the middle through the middle'
In her first solo exhibition in Scotland Hana Sakuma presents new
installation work at The Changing Room.
At the centre of the exhibition is a large work where extracts from
second hand books are written in chalk onto a blackboard, then partially
obscured. The extracts are death scenes taken from a type of popular
literature that used to be read by a wide audience in Britain, but is
now often discarded. Alongside this piece is a series of smaller works
that play on notions of nourishment, protection and vunerability.
Hana's work seeks to reveal gaps in what she calls a 'state of
untranslatability' from her experience of living in Britain as a
foreigner for many years.
Hana Sakuma was born in 1970 in Osaka, Japan and is currently based in
London where she is undertaking a PhD at Chelsea College of Art &
Design. Recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions include 'It's not a
matter of guilt' The Economist, commissioned by Contemporary Art
Society, London 1999; 'Hana Sakuma', Kojimachi Gallery, Tokyo, 2000;
'Unframing Process', CAS, Osaka, 2000; 'Hana Sakuma' art.tm, Inverness
(13 April - 25 May) 2002. She has also worked on numerous collaborative
projects with artists and curators including 'The rest of the story',
London, 2000; 'Sky Map', Cardiff & London, 2001 and the video screening
'Scramble' which will be toured throughout the UK in 2002.
PRIVATE VIEW Friday 5th April 7-9pm
ARTIST'S TALK Sat 27th April 4.30pm
Gallery open 11am - 5pm Tuesday - Saturday ADMISSION FREE
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Stirling's Contemporary Art Space
35 The Crawford Arcade, King Street, Stirling, FK8 1AX
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