Hiraki sawa biography definitions and quotes

In view of these recent exhibitions, we had a conversation with Sawa about his creative process and experiences. Meanwhile, the house where I grew up in had to be vacated in , so I decided to keep a record of the house in a video. This was the first trigger. Fundamentally speaking, when I make an artwork and get excited, it is a similar feeling to a child playing with toys with imagination.

I forget about the time and create works in these moments. It is said that children around the age of 5 are good at drawing. I find importance in how I could be like a child in terms of my imagination and my consciousness when I am expressing these through my works. It is not to imitate a child, but to be a child when creating the work.

This is what I value in an expression.

Japanese born, London based

Looking at drawings my daughter made when she was little, it comes as a surprise that I will never be able to draw with such usage of colours and compositions. After making artworks for almost 20 years, I find it exciting when my brain works like a child playing. Living in a new residential area known as a new town was natural for me.

Before the experience of losing the home that I grew up in, I had fixed views about the idea of a house, a family, and the society. I thought it would be sad or a little lonely to lose our home. But from a historical point of view, neither my home, nor the new residential area exists.