Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Pola Art Foundation
Kanako Sasaki
Working with lens-based media (photography and video) Kanako Sasaki challenges and deconstructs history, time and memory by exploring and infusing her imagination with the stories of individuals. Her inspiration comes from written texts, oral stories and fragmented narratives that create new dimensions of meaning.
Kanako Sasaki (born 1976 in Sendai, Japan) lives and works in Sendai. She earned an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, New York and also studied at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. Recently, she premiered her video workOkinawa Ark in Tokyo for the Shiseido Art Egg Award, which was shown in Miami, Bolivia and Singapore. Sasaki has exhibited her work in Japan, Europe, and the United States at venues including Gallery 10G in New York and Dina Mitrani Gallery in Miami, FL.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Jau-lan Guo and Kanako Sasaki
July 26, 2011
Kanako Sasaki, Departure, 2007, Digital C-Print, 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Kanako Sasaki, Conversation With Anne Frank 2, 2008, Digital video, 3 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Kanako Sasaki, Interlocking World At Colonial De Okinawa, Bolivia, 2009, Mixed media. Courtesy of the artist.
Kanako Sasaki, Okinawa Ark, 2009, Digital video, 3 channel projection, 13 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Kanako Sasaki, Time escape, 2008, Digital C-Print, 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Davor Sanvincenti
Davor Sanvincenti’s artistic practice takes shape in various media including film, video, photography, physical light, sound installations and live performances. His work plays with the concept of illusion, exploring the possible boundaries of perception and the construction of experience. Sanvincenti explores the aesthetic and qualitative capabilities of different media and employs direct communication with the spectator. Notices, observations and research that pervade scientific and artistic spheres constitute the structure for his work.
Davor Sanvincenti a.k.a Messmatik (born 1979 in Slovenia) lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. He studied Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka, Croatia and holds a BA in Visual Arts from the European Institute of Design and an MA in Sound Design and Multimedia Programming from Agon – electro acoustic center in Milan, Italy. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and screened at festivals including Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid; LOOP, Barcelona; 25FPS, Zagreb; World Film Festival, Bangkok; VideoEX, Zurich and at venues including Centre Pompidou, Paris; MoCA Zagreb; Lincoln Center, New York; HB Galerie, Rotterdam; Joanneum Museum, Graz; NIU, Barcelona; La Triennale, Milan and MoCA Vojvodina, Novi Sad.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Kasper Akhøj and Davor Sanvincenti
April 5, 2011
Davor Sanvincenti, Home Is Not A Cold Place, 2010, Light installation, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Davor Sanvincenti, 1001, 2008, Physical audiovisual installation, 157 × 118 × 118 in. (398.78 × 299.72 × 299.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Davor Sanvincenti, Study Of The Kinetic Flower, 2010, Light box photography, 20 × 20 in. (50.8 × 50.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Davor Sanvincenti, Inside The Structure, 2010, Live media performance, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Davor Sanvincenti, Distant Intimacy, 2010, Audiovisual installation, Dimensions 1:1. Courtesy of the artist.
Ixone Sádaba
The work of Ixone Sádaba takes a double stand to photographic practice. Sádaba presents an analysis of the typology and of the formal and physical development of representation as a construction of observed matters. Furthermore, photography acts as a field study through which Sádaba questions the dimension of glance, over and beyond the regulatory framework that defines or pretends to define an image. Her research focuses on the limits of the individual as well as on the tensions immanent to taxonomy and orders organizing and supporting the ideas of identity and property. Sádaba’s practice reflects on the intersection between the individual and social conflicts, underlining the violent nature of mankind.
Ixone Sádaba (born 1977 in Bilbao, Spain) studied Fine Arts at the Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao and Art Direction at the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain. Recent exhibitions of her work were held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla Y Leon, Leon, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ixone Sádaba, La Nuit Americaine, 2009, C-Print, wood, amd glass , 50 × 60 in. (127 × 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ixone Sádaba, La Nuit Americaine, 2009, C-Print, wood, and glass, 50 × 60 in. (127 × 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ixone Sádaba, The Expulsion From Paradise, 2005, C-Print, 90 × 200 in. (228.6 × 508 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ixone Sádaba, Poetique De La Desaparition, 2006, C-Prints, 45 × 60 in. (114.3 × 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ixone Sádaba, Poetique de la Desaparition, 2006, C-Print, 45 × 60 in. (114.3 × 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
