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Haruko Sasakawa
Recollection: the Plywood Fish
Aug 25 - Sep 17, 2017
11:00-19:00, Closed | Tue, Wed
Venue | Yoshimi Arts
Recollection: Human Torpedo from Haruko Sasakawa on Vimeo.
Yoshimi Arts is pleased to present “Recollection: the Plywood Fish,” a solo exhibition by Haruko Sasakawa.
Haruko Sasakawa has been working with social issues in her work from an interest in how people are influenced by the media. Through her doctoral disseration, “War as seen in media—From War Painting To Video Games,” (2016) and the group exhibition “SENSOU-GA STUDIES (War Painting Studies)” that she organized in December 2015 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, she has closely examined how art and design were utilized as media during war times.
For this exhibition, we will be exhibiting the work she presented for her doctoral assessment at Tokyo Univeristy of the Arts in 2015. Based on her grandfather’s experience and testimony when he was assinged to be part of the suicide squad for the army, she visited the actual spot where her grandfather would have belonged, and consulted various documents to investigate the weapons he had seen. The human torpedo, according to her grandfather, was made of plywood, not iron plates.
The work will be reconstructed for the exhibition.
Yoshimi Arts
I recreated the torpedo with plywood, based on the documents I collected, and my grandfather’s testimony. The torpedo had a periscope attached, through which you can see the photos I collected throughout my journies around the islands . The faint images seen through the periscope might have been what my grandfather himself saw back then. However, all the photos are scenes of the present. It is impossible to fully capture the sights that he had actually seen.
Haruko Sasakawa
image | representation for this exhibition
solo exhibition "Recollection - Human Torpedo" 2015 (The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts)
| Haruko Sasakawa ≫ |
| 1983 |
Born in Osaka, Japan |
| 2005 |
Graduated from Department of 3DCG, Digital Hollywood |
| 2009 |
Tokyo University of the Arts, B.F.A. in Inter Media Art |
| 2011 |
Tokyo University of the Arts, M.F.A. in Inter Media Art |
| 2016 |
Tokyo University of the Arts, D.F.A in Inter Media Art |
| Currently lives and works in Ibaraki, Japan. Assistant at Tokyo University of the Arts |
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| Solo Exhibition |
| 2016 |
"Grandfather's Pictures" (INO ARTISTS VILLAGE 104/Ibaraki) |
| 2015 |
"Recollection - Human Torpedo" (The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts |
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/Tokyo) |
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"ROBOTS" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) ≫ |
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"AD" (ART FAIR TOKYO - Yoshimi Arts/Tokyo International Forum/Tokyo) ≫ |
| 2013 |
"Study Room no.6221"- Documentation
(Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
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"Study Room no.6221" (ART OSAKA-Yoshimi Arts/Hotel Granvia Osaka/Osaka) |
| 2012 |
"For Your Safety M, ltd" (Art LAB OVER THE BORDER/Tokyo) |
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"case.D" （Yoshimi Arts/Osaka） |
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"case.C" （ART OSAKA－Yoshimi Arts/Hotel Granvia Osaka/Osaka） |
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"case.A" （Yoshimi Arts/Osaka） |
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| Group Exhibition |
| 2016 |
"Material and Form" in a digital age (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) ≫ |
| 2015 |
"SENSOU-GA STUDIES" (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/Tokyo) |
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"5th Anniversary Festival !!" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) ≫ |
| 2014 |
"Material and Form" in a digital age (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) ≫ |
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"Art Court Frontier #12" (ARTCOURT Gallery/Osaka) |
| 2013 |
"The shiny future exhibition 2013, THE HUMANISATION" (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
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/Tokyo) |
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"Figurative Abstraction" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
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Insight 8 "Figurative" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
| 2012 |
"Primitive [ in order ]" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
| 2011 |
"the Civilization" （Ginza Seiou Gallery/Tokyo） |
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"Dessin / Écriture" （SPROUT Curation/Tokyo） |
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"floating view2 Topophilia Update" （Shinjuku Ganka Gallery/Tokyo) |
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Insight "Repetition II" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
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Insight "Repetition" (ART OSAKA - Yoshimi Arts/Hotel Granvia Osaka/Osaka) |
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"Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2011" （Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery/Tokyo） |
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"floating view - new artists from suburbia" （Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo/Tokyo） |
| 2010 |
"The shiny future exhibition 2010, The Globalization By Haruko Sasakawa×BARBARA |
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DARLINg" (Tokyo University of the Arts/Tokyo) |
| 2009 |
"No Man’s Land MEMENTO VIVERE/MEMENTO PHANTASMA" (French Embassy's Previous |
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offices before their Destruction/Tokyo) |
| 2008 |
"SOUND & VISION vol.3" (ZAIM/Kanagawa) |
| 2007 |
"HIGURE 5th Anniversary Exhibition" (HIGURE 17-15 cas/Tokyo) |
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| Award |
| 2015 |
Japan Arts Scholarship, Japan Arts Foundation |
| 2011 |
Ｍ.Ｍ Prize (on website "artscape") |
| 2010 |
Murata Makoto Prize (on website "artscape") |
| 2007 |
Ataka Prize, Tokyo University of the Arts |
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| Collection |
| Japigozzi Collection |
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