New Media Series-- Hiraki Sawa: Migration

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Coinciding with the inaugural Contemporary installations in the new East Building, this presentation draws from the Museum’s burgeoning New Media collection with Migration, a 2003 video by London-based Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa. In 2005 the Museum founded the New Media Series to highlight contemporary art exploring video, film, and sound: the debut installation featured Sawa’s Migration, acquired in 2004. In Migration, a seven-minute digital video, men and women depicted at Lilliputian scale, along with miniature horses, elephants, and camels traverse the interior of a life-size apartment. Sawa borrowed pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s late 19th-century studies of human and animal locomotion, animating the walking gaits of Muybridge’s subjects across the window sills, floors, and countertops of the Japanese artist’s flat in London. Sawa merges 21st-century digital technology with the 19th-century beginnings of photography to produce an intriguingly captivating, imaginary world in black and white. Curated by Tricia Y. Paik, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art, Hiraki Sawa: Migration will be on view in Gallery 301 from May 3 through September 8, 2013. Free. Museum Hours: Tues-Thurs, Sat-Sun: 10 AM to 5 PM; Fri: 10 AM to 9 PM; closed Monday. *Please Note: The Museum will be closed June 15-28 for Grand Opening preparations. Grand Opening festivities will take place Saturday, June 29, 10 AM-10 PM, and Sunday, June 30, 10 AM- 5 PM.

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