PASSAGE PROJECT
FROM JANUARY, 1ST TO MARCH, 31
AND FROM JUNE, 29 TO AUGUST 8 2010
Kanako Sasaki’s presence at the CENTQUATRE is in the context of a programme of exchange residencies between CENTQUATRE and the Tokyo Wonder Site (an advanced center for artistic residencies in the field of new technologies). During her residency, the Japanese artist works with elderly men and women from the district and Japanese have lived in Paris for a long time, with the objective of revisiting their memories within the installation. In order to do this, the artist plans to visit these people’s flats, take photographs and conduct interviews, probing their memory and their connection with private and public space.
She’s also taking the Parisian covered passageways as her setting for creating a new photographic and video installation at the CENTQUATRE. Using Walter Benjamin as a reference, she wishes to create what he calls fluidity. Those looking at the installation are like the saunterers described by Benjamin for whom the visual experience and the place meet up, making it possible to go beyond the frontiers of space, time and history.
BIOGRAPHY
Kanako Sasaki was born in 1976 in Japan, and lives and works in Japan.
She has studied in New York (School of Visual Arts) and London (Royal College of Art). Since 2005, she has held an increasing number of solo exhibitions where she shows installations mingling photography and video, in Budapest, Tokyo, New York, etc. Her work is focused on older women, in homage to her grandmother who died quite recently. By meeting such people all over the world, she is searching for a universal memory of a bygone time, in order not to lose her own memory. For her, her work is a "celebration of the capacity for survival of universal emotions".
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A project taking place in the context of an exchange residency between the CENTQUATRE and Tokyo Wonder Site, and the residencies programme of the City of Paris. With the support of the French Embassy in Japan.
In parallel with Kanako Sasaki’s residency, the French artist Nicolas Lelièvre will be in Japan for three months, then from May 2010 will be back at CENTQUATRE.
