WORK
Dormant Recollections
Rui Sasaki（Japan）
The former Nakamura Family Residence, with its impressive thatched roof, has become a national important cultural property. It has a stable, in which this glass installation has been developed. It is said that plants have memories of the past and awareness of the present. Glass, on the other hand, is a material without memory of the land, yet it records memories of peoples’ lives through dust and rain, and layered fingerprints on its surface. In this work, plants become ash for the production of glass, expressing the house’s memory of three hundred years, and the air and humidity released become bubbles that mark the memory of the land into glass.
Rui Sasaki（Japan）
Born in 1984 in Kochi, grew up in Saitama and Ibaraki, and now lives in Ishigawa. Sasaki is interested in the nature and climate that he is familiar with – he uses glass as material though which he is able to conserve and record, and explores the “slight reminiscences” sparked by the recognition of a place where he was once present.