Lecture Rui Sasaki: Subtle Intimacy in working with glass

On wednesday, 30 October 2024 at 1:30 PM we organize a lecture from a japanese glass artist Rui Sasaki. The lecture will give you the poectic jorney of how the artist explores “Subtle Intimacy” as a main concpet in her work with glass —a material that renders the invisible, visible. Its consistent duality invites us to ponder presence and absence, and which allows us to preserve and record—to confirm the artist own existence via the exploration of an “intimacy” with which she have found myself unconsciously in sympathy, amid subtle day-to-day realizations.

The lecture is organized in collaboration with Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Department for Industrial Design and Applied Arts.

About the artist:

Rui Sasaki was born in Kochi, Japan in 1984 and grew up suburb of Tokyo. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in the US with an MFA in 2010 and her BA from Musashino Art University in Japan in 2006. She currently lives in Kanazawa, Ishikawa pref. and teaches as a part-time lecturer at Tama Art University in Tokyo.

Sasaki employs glass as a material that makes it possible to document and preserve presence through her works, exploring subtle intimacy perceived in physical places. She has been invited to various artist in residence programs internationally and has shown her work at art museums worldwide. She is a winner of the 33rd Rakow Commission 2018 (Corning Museum of Glass, USA) and received the grand prize at the Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2021 (Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan). Her work has been collected in many art museums around the world, including the Latvian National Museum of Art and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan). Her recent solo exhibitions are “Subtle Intimacy: Here and There” (2023, Portland Japanese Garden, USA) and “Blue in the Snow” (2024, ARTCOURT Gallery, JP). Sasaki has been featured in the New York Times and other media.