Text by Lumi Tan, Aki Sasamoto. Interview by Erynn Johnson, Masaki Hoso. Afterword by Hitomi Iwasaki.
Spiraling snail shells form the basis for Sasamoto’s latest performance and installation works
Published on the occasion of her standout solo exhibition at the Queens Museum, Point Reflection is the first major volume devoted to the work of New York–based artist Aki Sasamoto (born 1980). Conceived as an artist’s book, Point Reflection centers on Sasamoto’s major installation Sink or Float, first presented at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Building on the artist’s idiosyncratic research into snail shell chirality—the direction in which the shell coils—as a cypher for thinking through questions of change, aging, (non)normativity, vulnerability and natural processes, Point Reflection brings together the diagrammatic visions, narrative experimentation, structured improvisations and stream-of-consciousness monologues characteristic of her performances and installations. The book features writing and drawings by Sasamoto, a critical essay by Lumi Tan, interviews with biologists conducted by the artist and an afterword by Queens Museum curator Hitomi Iwasaki.
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FORMAT: Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 105 color / 19 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $29.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $42.95 GBP £26.99 ISBN: 9781954939035 PUBLISHER: CARA/Queens Museum AVAILABLE: 8/27/2024 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by CARA/Queens Museum. Text by Lumi Tan, Aki Sasamoto. Interview by Erynn Johnson, Masaki Hoso. Afterword by Hitomi Iwasaki.
Spiraling snail shells form the basis for Sasamoto’s latest performance and installation works
Published on the occasion of her standout solo exhibition at the Queens Museum, Point Reflection is the first major volume devoted to the work of New York–based artist Aki Sasamoto (born 1980). Conceived as an artist’s book, Point Reflection centers on Sasamoto’s major installation Sink or Float, first presented at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Building on the artist’s idiosyncratic research into snail shell chirality—the direction in which the shell coils—as a cypher for thinking through questions of change, aging, (non)normativity, vulnerability and natural processes, Point Reflection brings together the diagrammatic visions, narrative experimentation, structured improvisations and stream-of-consciousness monologues characteristic of her performances and installations. The book features writing and drawings by Sasamoto, a critical essay by Lumi Tan, interviews with biologists conducted by the artist and an afterword by Queens Museum curator Hitomi Iwasaki.
