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Sawa unravels the memory of the place where the house is located was once a special duty-free zone called Daijume where many gold leaf makers lived. The nostalgic fantasy of hearing the sound of a gold leaf hammering craftsman striking a gold box from an adjacent house was born from the idea of visualizing the relationship between space and art. molding. At times, sunlight filtering through the windows casts shadows on the walls, and at other times, the air fluctuates, interlacing slight movements and collisions, and faint sounds echo in the space. It is a work that traverses the fields of architecture and art, such as designing an atrium structure, and deciphers the display method unique to living spaces, various materials, the flow of light and air, and the time axis from sleeping to waking up. A space that evokes the memories of the past of the manufacturing of the people who once made this site lively expands. The title of this work, “a quiet place”, comes from the idea of this house as a “quiet place” as a place to enjoy the atmosphere of the past through art works in a quiet space where there are no craftsmen. The work consists of a mobile work in the atrium, a map of the moon in the bedroom, and “drawing for a quiet place” is also displayed in the living room on the first floor

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Hiraki Sawa
Born in Ishikawa. Completed MFA in sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2003. Currently lives in London and Kanazawa. Sawa expresses intangible domains such as imaginary landscape or certain senses exist in memories by video installations consist of moving image, three-dimensional and two-dimensional artworks. By manipulating moving images and three- dimensional structures, Sawa realises implausible and yet familiar scene in a given exhibition space which appeal to audience’s imagination. His recent artworks attempt to intersect moving images and exhibition space each other by constructing space through sculptural arrangements of moving images or laying three-dimensional and two dimensional artworks side by side.