The japanese artist Hiraki Sawa who resides in London (Ishikawa, Japan, 1977) began his career in the field of sculpture, where he developed maintaining his loyalty to drawing until focusing on video, moving images. In the works of Sawa, objects and images taken from photographs come alive and move through domestic spaces, almost in a dreamlike way, recreating both the dreams that inhabit our minds and the ones that we might have forgotten.
This means, that the thread leding through Parallel memory, the exhibition presented by the Museo Universidad de Navarra, establishes parallels between the duality of memory and oblivion, by exploring society’s rescued memories from our prevailing collective amnesia. This exhibition counts on Sawa’s participation in the museums programme Tender Puentes, in which he associates the reflections of the above concepts with the hidden Image that Talbot discovered through the development of his own calotypes.
