Hiroe Saeki : Cosmogenesis

7 Nov 2019-31 Jan 2020

Overview

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to host Hiroe Saeki’s first UK solo show. In this exhibition, she presents a new body of work with graphite and water. The powdered graphite travels through capillaries of water: settling where and when the water evaporates, to be absorbed by the land of paper. The resulting surfaces recall water-carved planetary landscapes. Saeki’s practice evokes associations with biological or mineral forms, such as geological sediments. Exquisite, miniscule lines take us to the nano level of the cellular structure of organisms. Combined with the serendipitous nature of her new graphite process, they take on a sense of the cosmic.