SAWAZAKI Kenichi

Born 1978 in Hiroshima, lives and works in Kyoto. He worked in Newcastle in 2002-2003, and graduated from International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in 2007.

 

As his recent major work, there is a series of humorous and poetic video installation works in which he shows a process of attempting to have experience for himself what his familiar persons have gone through on behalf of them. In developing scenes where personal experience and social incidence become entwined, he has been exploring the effect of the peripheral images created for lighting up what we can never have experience.

 

Major exhibitions include solo show “Progressive Belief in Doub, LE Bind” (GALLERY TERRA TOKYO, Tokyo, 2012), and such group shows as; “Art Court Frontier 2013” (ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, 2013), “Kawaii” (CAMP Contemporary Art Meeting Point, Athens, 2013), “The same thing or similar things, and an action.” (AD&A gallery, Osaka, 2010) and “JEANS FACTORY ART AWARD 2008” (Kochi City Culture-Plaza CUL-PORT, Kochi, 2008 *won the grand prix M prize).