WEAR ME / Life's Changes and Shifts

Yokohama
February 22 - March 5, 2011

Sanae Takahata well known for her WEAR ME dress shaped mixed media sculptures will be showing her new work at the Galerie Paris in Yokohama. This on going series which started in 2001 has been shown in Kyoto's Honenin Temple and renowned art galleries in Tokyo and Hong Kong. Also on exhibit will be new paintings and wearable art pieces.

Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011- Saturday, March 5, 2011
Time: 11:00 - 18:00
Opening Reception: February 25, 2011 (17:00 - 20:00)
At: Galerie Paris
Mitsuibussan Building 1F, 14 Nihon-odori Naka-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa
Telephone: 045-664-3917
http://www.galerieparis.net

Artist's Statement

Wearing a thin cloth of consciousness, we come into contact with the outside world. Interaction changes and shifts my consciousness. I project this ever changing and shifting consciousness on to familiar dress shapes.

WEAR ME is an on going portrait series of my consciousness that I started in 2001. As the base of my sculptures I use sheer white dresses that actually or symbolically fit my body. The dresses are like a second skin that is intimately familiar and a vessel that comes closest to containing my physical self. This base allows me to freely express my consciousness in flowing colors and shifting textures. These dress shaped sculptures are self portraits from different periods of my life.

I cannot stop the passing of my one life time, the changes in the lives of beloved others nor the daily flow of my surroundings. It is against this impermanence and brevity of life that I strive to create eternal time in my work.

Sanae Takahata