Sachiko Abe
November 22, 2010
I always attend Liverpool Biennial. It never fails to inspire me. It makes me walk, talk and look differently at life and the city of Liverpool. The event now has massive investment and infrastructure enabling it to develop interesting, complex projects alongside hosting some of the best International artists (including those from the UK).
The star of the show for me this year was the enchanting durational piece, Cut Papers by Sachiko Abe.
A Foundation hosted the exhibition:
Sachiko Abe’s work encompasses, performance, drawing, film and sculptural installations using cut papers accumulated over the last seven years. Her practice explores duration, repetition and constraints. Her recent work explores disquieting routines that provoke anxiety and touch us in ways we cannot explain. In Cut Papers Abe invites the audience to experience an intimate space in which the constant snipping of scissor blades is the only measure of time passing.
At A Foundation Abe performed for the duration of the Biennial, an intricate graphic weave was produced by intensive duration periods of cutting paper. Abe’s supporting drawings invite us to contemplate the intensity of ideas which accumulate and are disseminated in the transformation of a white sheet of paper into medium of communication.
An enchanting exhibition, the performance element of the piece had a calming, mesmerising effect. With a dropped jaw, time passed and my fascination grew. Abe’s sweProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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ing tower of paper clippings were like something from a fairytale, timeless.
Sachiko Abe. Cut Papers, 2010. Image courtesy of Julian Stallabrass
