elsewhere / WITHIN / trail

Remember a time when you were a child, all you had to do was use your imagination and you could travel the world in your toy car, or journey to exotic lands with your beloved teddy bear? The tiny bedroom is where all these imaginations began. It features in artist Hiraki Sawa’s work as a memory to be retrieved—so familiar yet so distant.
The master bedroom in Da-an 56 showcases three of Hiraki Sawa’s video works. The scenes are set in noticeably familiar places, with an extra touch of surrealism that is only logical and possible in dreams. Elsewhere features a domestic space where ordinary glasses and dishes with legs are walking around. WITHIN depicts a small child, half-awake and half-dreaming, with storybooks, pony and warm patchwork quilt. trail features the wandering mind and the wild imagination. Deliberate, slow steps leave behind a trail of shadows that are visible but intangible.
The magical moment has arrived. A place you know so well tumbles into another dream. The artist does not daydream his way out of reality. Instead, he traces fading imagination using the language of the dream.