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Friday, June 27, 2025


Exhibition Public - USA & Canada

Hiraki Sawa: Journeys in Place

Asia Society
725 Park Avenue,
New York, USA
Mar 04, 2025 To Aug 10, 2025


Detail: Japanese-born and London-based Hiraki Sawa creates video works that explore psychological landscapes, unexpected worlds, and the playful interweaving of domestic and imaginary spaces. His works traverse specific, often personal, landscapes to consider memory, migration, and displacement. Asia Society invited Sawa to frame his video trail (2005), held in the museum’s collection, with a selection of works from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, echoing the approach of the exhibition (Re)Generations in the museum’s 2nd- and 3rd-floor galleries. His selection of a small-scale pair of lion-dogs (flanking the video monitor) and bixies (mythical creatures) relate to the miniaturized camel who is the main protagonist of trail. Asia Society’s beloved elephant-headed sandstone Ganesha completes the display, bringing joy, good luck, and wealth to the many who venerate the popular deity.

Phone No.: 212-288-6400
Contact Email: info@asiasociety.org
Site URL: https://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/hiraki-sawa-journeys-place



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