About the work

This is an idea sketch for a forthcoming installation, the working title of which is Platter. A work involving the collage of symbols – fog, lighthouse, tapping hand, boat, horn, stone, ladder – with which to compose. The final work will be exhibited to Tokyo in February 2019.

Date and country of birth

1977, JP

About the artist

Born 1977 Kanazawa, Hiraki Sawa lives and works in London and Kanazawa. Graduated from MFA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (2003).

Sawa works in installation, video, drawing, painting and sculpture.

His works are held in public and private collections including the Arts Council Collection, London; Hayward Gallery, London; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 

Selected exhibitions include /home, Ota Fine Arts Tokyo (2021); absent, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei (2020); Memoria paralela, Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona (2019); fantasmagoria, Parafin, London (2018); Wilderness, The New Art Gallery, Walsall (2018); Sapporo International Art Festival 2017 (2017); fig.2, ICA, London (2015); 12e Biennale de Lyon. Entre-temps… Brusquement, Et ensuite, Lyon (2013); Under the Box, Beyond the Bounds, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2014); and Figment, James Cohan Gallery, New York (2013).