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“Kanako Sasaki’s photographs are largely self-portraits. Not only does she pose in her pictures, but the works are also inspired directly from her own childhood memories and imagination. Sasaki’s photos capture the concept of a “floating world”, or romanticized world where everything is peaceful and beautiful and nature is flourishing. She is influenced by various Japanese novels and Ukiyo-e paintings. (Ukiyo-e is a genre style of painting and printmaking developed in Japan from the 17th to the 19th centuries and marked by the depiction of the leisure activities of ordinary people). Putting her own idiosyncratic twist on the popular theme of teenage girls growing up, Sasaki always dresses up in high fashion clothing, thus putting her own spin on the conventions of adolescence and recreation. Sasaki likes to let the audience see her work as if they are sharing the secret moments with the girl in the image. She wants them to conjure up their own memories of playing on the beach, as seen in Ambassador or as climbing and playing in the yard on trees as depicted in Swing Club.”
“In this world everything is a source of interest. And yet just one step ahead lies darkness. So we should cast off all gloomy thoughts about our earthy lot and enjoy the pleasures of snow, moon, flowers and autumn leaves and drinking wine; living our lives like a gourd bobbing buoyantly downstream. This is the floating world.”—novels of c. 1665, Ukiyo monogatari, “Tales of the Floating World.”
I have more been interested in creating a surreal and eccentric mood to express a dream like world than showing the womanhoods. Furthermore, I am interested in the idea of bipolar, such as innocence and aggression, loneliness and playfulness to express the extreme stage of emotion that are on the verge of formation or even explosion. Therefore, there are multiple personalities underneath in girls, which push “self” into the images. It is almost not about the issue of being a girl or living in the different culture, but just as human beings to survive in the reality, which contemplate with the idea such as loss, escape, isolation, and self-distraction in the modern life.
Simple, yet abrupt gestures imply more freedom and childlikeness. Even wanting to express hopelessness, this betrayal implies, a universally shared loss of innocence. Believing utopia, but can’t and want to squeeze out the texture of a twisted future. Moreover, these poignancy of the gestures deliver eager feelings to communicate with “someone I love,” while the subjects are alienated from the real world. Again, the concept of “floating” keeps me going forward, not just the relationship with my Japanese heritage, but it makes me feel ordinary life becomes more extraordinary focused. In other words, transitioning pleasures and freedom from the cares and concerns of the world. The effect is mesmerizing and makes being insignificant and human feel absolutely wonderful.
“In this world everything is a source of interest. And yet just one step ahead lies darkness. So we should cast off all gloomy thoughts about our earthy lot and enjoy the pleasures of snow, moon, flowers and autumn leaves and drinking wine; living our lives like a gourd bobbing buoyantly downstream. This is the floating world.”—novels of c. 1665, Ukiyo monogatari, “Tales of the Floating World.”
I have more been interested in creating a surreal and eccentric mood to express a dream like world than showing the womanhoods. Furthermore, I am interested in the idea of bipolar, such as innocence and aggression, loneliness and playfulness to express the extreme stage of emotion that are on the verge of formation or even explosion. Therefore, there are multiple personalities underneath in girls, which push “self” into the images. It is almost not about the issue of being a girl or living in the different culture, but just as human beings to survive in the reality, which contemplate with the idea such as loss, escape, isolation, and self-distraction in the modern life.
Simple, yet abrupt gestures imply more freedom and childlikeness. Even wanting to express hopelessness, this betrayal implies, a universally shared loss of innocence. Believing utopia, but can’t and want to squeeze out the texture of a twisted future. Moreover, these poignancy of the gestures deliver eager feelings to communicate with “someone I love,” while the subjects are alienated from the real world. Again, the concept of “floating” keeps me going forward, not just the relationship with my Japanese heritage, but it makes me feel ordinary life becomes more extraordinary focused. In other words, transitioning pleasures and freedom from the cares and concerns of the world. The effect is mesmerizing and makes being insignificant and human feel absolutely wonderful.
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KANAKO SASAKI
Sendai, Japan 1976
EDUCATION
2006-7 Royal Collage of Art, London UK
2004 MFA Photo, video and related media School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2001 BA Journalism, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Passage Project, Video Installation, Le Centquatre, Paris
2009
Drifted, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo Japan
Okinawa Ark, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo Japan
2008
Ukiyo-Floating world, Gardian Garden gallery, Tokyo
2007
Walking in the jungle, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
View from Here, Kiosko Galeria, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Walking in the jungle, Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2005
View from Here, Main Gallery, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Wanderlust, Art Cocoon gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Tokyo Story, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2009
WAR & ART: Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan
2008
Exposures, Dina Mitrani gallery, Miami USA
Lululu, Landscape, Shizuoka Prefecture Museum of Arts, Shizuoka, Japan
Portraiture, New York Photo Festival, Dumbo, NY
2007
The Seen, Toronto Film Festival, Flunt + magazine, Aritzia boutique, Toronto, Canada
Super PHAT: SVA Japan Alumni Association Exhibition, The Visual Arts
Gallery, New York, USA
Floating World, Duo Show Kanako Sasaki and Fay Ku, Gallery 10G, NY,USA
Summer Group Show, Featuring Aubrey Hays, Kanako Sasaki & Kate Pollard
Gallery 1oG, NY
Someone else’s house, Notting Hill Gate, London
Failure, with Royal Collage of Art, Photography Dept. Krakow Foto Month,
Krakow Poland.
VOCA (The Vision of Contemporary Art) Award exhibition, Ueno no mori
Museum, Tokyo Japan
2006
As if we seek the light in the dark, Raku gallery at Kyoto
Design and Art University, Kyoto, Japan
Passionate Attitudes, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
Magenta’s Emerging Photographers book & exhibition, Lennonx Contemporary Art,
Toronto, Canada.
The living is easy, International contemporary photography at Flower East
gallery, London, UK
School of Visual Arts year book exhibition, SVA gallery, NY
Photo Plus Expo, PDN Exhibition, Javits Center New York, USA
Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
Artist in Residence 2006, Kunstraum Palais Porcia, Vienna, Austria
Fusentowata and Kanako Sasaki, solo and performance at Coca Cola gallery,
Vienna, Austria
Artpoint, collaboration and exhibition, Vienna, Austria
Joint Venture, Richard Nelson Gallery, LA
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2011
Recipient of Pola Art Foundation, Tokyo
2010
Participant of Tokyo-Paris Exchange residency at Le Centquatre, Paris
2009
Recipient of Shiseido Exhibition Grant for Okinawa Ark series
Participant of MoKS residency, Mooste, Estonia
2008
Third Shiseido Art Egg Award, Tokyo, Japan
Participant of Baer residency, Iceland
Participant of Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Participant of MoKS artist residency, Mooste, Estonia
3rd Shiseido Art Egg Award, Tokyo Japan
2007
Participant of Woodstock A-I-R, residency for artists of color working in the
photographic art, Woodstock, NY
VOCA Award exhibition, Ueno no mori museum, Tokyo Japan
2006-07
Recipient of Ezoe foundation for artist, Japan
Recipient of Japanese Government Study Program for artist for a year,
Agency for Cultural Affairs
Participant of Bundeskanzleramt Kunst, Residency in Vienna, Austria
Selected in PDN’s 30 “emerging photographer to watch”, NY
Winner of Magenta’s Emerging Photographers Book and Exhibition
2005
Participant of the Light Work’s Artist-in-Residency program, Syracuse, NY
Recipient of Alumni Scholarship Award (School of Visual Arts)
ITS Four International Talent Support MINI Photo Award Finalist, Trieste,Italy.
2004
Golden Light Award, Personal Documentary, The Workshop, Maine, USA
Selected as one of the top 100 photographers, Personal/Fine Art category, The Workshop,
Maine, USA
Hitotsubo-ten (3.3mX3.3m) Award, Guardian Garden/Recruit, Japan
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Sendai, Japan 1976
EDUCATION
2006-7 Royal Collage of Art, London UK
2004 MFA Photo, video and related media School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2001 BA Journalism, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Passage Project, Video Installation, Le Centquatre, Paris
2009
Drifted, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo Japan
Okinawa Ark, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo Japan
2008
Ukiyo-Floating world, Gardian Garden gallery, Tokyo
2007
Walking in the jungle, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
View from Here, Kiosko Galeria, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Walking in the jungle, Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2005
View from Here, Main Gallery, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Wanderlust, Art Cocoon gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Tokyo Story, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2009
WAR & ART: Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan
2008
Exposures, Dina Mitrani gallery, Miami USA
Lululu, Landscape, Shizuoka Prefecture Museum of Arts, Shizuoka, Japan
Portraiture, New York Photo Festival, Dumbo, NY
2007
The Seen, Toronto Film Festival, Flunt + magazine, Aritzia boutique, Toronto, Canada
Super PHAT: SVA Japan Alumni Association Exhibition, The Visual Arts
Gallery, New York, USA
Floating World, Duo Show Kanako Sasaki and Fay Ku, Gallery 10G, NY,USA
Summer Group Show, Featuring Aubrey Hays, Kanako Sasaki & Kate Pollard
Gallery 1oG, NY
Someone else’s house, Notting Hill Gate, London
Failure, with Royal Collage of Art, Photography Dept. Krakow Foto Month,
Krakow Poland.
VOCA (The Vision of Contemporary Art) Award exhibition, Ueno no mori
Museum, Tokyo Japan
2006
As if we seek the light in the dark, Raku gallery at Kyoto
Design and Art University, Kyoto, Japan
Passionate Attitudes, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
Magenta’s Emerging Photographers book & exhibition, Lennonx Contemporary Art,
Toronto, Canada.
The living is easy, International contemporary photography at Flower East
gallery, London, UK
School of Visual Arts year book exhibition, SVA gallery, NY
Photo Plus Expo, PDN Exhibition, Javits Center New York, USA
Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
Artist in Residence 2006, Kunstraum Palais Porcia, Vienna, Austria
Fusentowata and Kanako Sasaki, solo and performance at Coca Cola gallery,
Vienna, Austria
Artpoint, collaboration and exhibition, Vienna, Austria
Joint Venture, Richard Nelson Gallery, LA
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2011
Recipient of Pola Art Foundation, Tokyo
2010
Participant of Tokyo-Paris Exchange residency at Le Centquatre, Paris
2009
Recipient of Shiseido Exhibition Grant for Okinawa Ark series
Participant of MoKS residency, Mooste, Estonia
2008
Third Shiseido Art Egg Award, Tokyo, Japan
Participant of Baer residency, Iceland
Participant of Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Participant of MoKS artist residency, Mooste, Estonia
3rd Shiseido Art Egg Award, Tokyo Japan
2007
Participant of Woodstock A-I-R, residency for artists of color working in the
photographic art, Woodstock, NY
VOCA Award exhibition, Ueno no mori museum, Tokyo Japan
2006-07
Recipient of Ezoe foundation for artist, Japan
Recipient of Japanese Government Study Program for artist for a year,
Agency for Cultural Affairs
Participant of Bundeskanzleramt Kunst, Residency in Vienna, Austria
Selected in PDN’s 30 “emerging photographer to watch”, NY
Winner of Magenta’s Emerging Photographers Book and Exhibition
2005
Participant of the Light Work’s Artist-in-Residency program, Syracuse, NY
Recipient of Alumni Scholarship Award (School of Visual Arts)
ITS Four International Talent Support MINI Photo Award Finalist, Trieste,Italy.
2004
Golden Light Award, Personal Documentary, The Workshop, Maine, USA
Selected as one of the top 100 photographers, Personal/Fine Art category, The Workshop,
Maine, USA
Hitotsubo-ten (3.3mX3.3m) Award, Guardian Garden/Recruit, Japan
.
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