“What is crucial is invisible to the eyes,” wrote Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in his novel in 1943 Little Princea sense that runs the work of Rui Sasaki. From what the (anterior) artist describes as a “mysterious and ambiguous materials”, the botanics appear to drift in frozen water cubes.
Sasaki makes use of glass to doc and preserve the character of the current. Works like “delicate intimacy” reply to locations and experiences wherein they really feel current. “It’s vital to me to attach who I’m and the place I’m, particularly when they’re in unknown areas,” says the artist for Colossal. It resembles the intimacy of nostalgia, exploring the depth of feeling related to recollections, consolation and safety.
Sasaki follows its fascination for the center till childhood, particularly to its visible similarities with the surfaces of the ponds or lakes. “I used to be at all times questioning how I might do one thing within the water,” she says. “After I noticed melted bottle at a glass studio throughout a summer time household journey to Okinawa, I fell in love with it.”
When Sasaki moved to the US in Japan in 2007, she started incorporating her vegetation as a approach to “get well my senses of lack of intimacy and residential within the mom,” she says. When he returned to Japan 5 years later, he continued to focus his consideration on botany.
Delonged by how vegetation can specific experiences from its environment, Sasaki depicts particular person botanicals in sculptures, with dimensions from a couple of meters large to chamber dimension installations. She says:
The gathering of vegetation is a very powerful facet of the work. I exploit all 5 senses within the plant gathering. This helps me to recollect the recollections of the previous, particularly in my childhood, and to attach my emotions in the direction of my nation, Japan.
Sasaki locations copies collected between two sheets of glass and pulls the track in a oven. The plant turns right into a white ash, leaving the impression of petals, leaves and veins. The air bubbles that seem naturally within the warmth are additionally stored in what the artist likes to a capsule of time. The preliminary type of the plant now not exists, however its impression resists.
Dualities comparable to presence and absence, fragility and energy, and transparency and opacity mix with Sasaki’s curiosity to “make mates” the glass, whereas revealing that it’s going to by no means absolutely perceive all the things about it.
If you’re in Denmark, you’ll be able to see Sasaki’s sculptures at Voice between March 22 and September 28 in Ebeltoft. Her work may even be seen later this 12 months at Aichi Trienala 2025. Discover extra on the artist’s website and comply with Instagram for updates.
