Aki Sasamoto | Queens Museum, New York - Take Ninagawa

Aki Sasamoto

Point Reflection
Queens Museum, New York
Solo Exhibition | December 6, 2023–April 7, 2024

Aki Sasamoto, Sink or Float, 2022, installation view at the 59th Venice Biennale. Courtesy of Bortolami Gallery, New York and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo. Photo by Wolfgang Trager.

Take Ninagawa is pleased to announce Aki Sasamoto‘s solo exhibition at the Queens Museum, New York, “Point Reflection,” opening on December 6.

Sasamoto will premiere Point Reflection (2023), a new media work and companion piece to her performance/installation Sink or Float (2022), originally commissioned for the 59th Venice Biennale, “The Milk of Dreams,” curated by Cecilia Alemani. Sasamoto will premiere her live performance of Point Reflection (2023) on December 15.

Questioning and channeling queries about the nuances of everyday life, Sasamoto arranges sculpturally altered found objects into installations that then serve as the sites for her improvisational performances. The performances in turn generate feedback with both the installation and the conditions of the site, developing in response to sounds, objects, and moving bodies. The constructed stories Sasamoto relates in the performances seem highly personal at first, yet are also open to varying degrees of access, relation, and reflection by others.

Visit the Queens Museum website for more information.

Aki Sasamoto, still from Point Reflection, 2023. © Aki Sasamoto and the Queens Museum, New York. Courtesy of the artist, Queens Museum, New York, Bortolami Gallery, New York, and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo.

Performance Schedule
December 15, 2023, 7:00–7:45pm
January 21, 2024, 3:33–4:18pm
February 17, 2024, 2:22–3:07pm (followed by a Q&A session: 3:15–4:00pm)
March 3, 2024, 3:33–4:18pm
April 6, 2024, 3:33–4:18pm

Location
Queens Museum
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368