Satchan's midnight garden

an installation of mural drawings, animation and sound

7 Kas 2009
19 Ara 2009
  • OutLINE
  • Oetewalerstraat 73, 1093 md Amsterdam

Takako Hamano draws scenes from our daily world. Reality and imagery comes together in her delicate drawings to add another dimension of ‘depth’. Hamano is interested in the different environments of people where memories, social and cultural links comes together, beyond time and space.

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Takako Hamano - Source: outlineamsterdam.nl

The book Mirrored Memories that recently has been presented in the SieboldHuis at Leiden, is the starting point for her solo ‘Satchan’s midnight garden’. The unique three part structure of outLINE which consists of a middle part with central dome and the ‘mirroring’ wings inspired her to transform the space in a three-dimensional book. ‘Satchan’ plays an important role in the exhibition. She is a sort of mythological character/ girl that you could find worlwide in tales from all times in all cultures. In the ‘midnight garden Satchan’ reads the book and fantasies about the world of ‘Mirrored Memories’. In an installation of drawings, textworks, animations, music, wall drawings and spatial objects the viewer is taken by surprise in a sensory paradox of fantasies, mirroring and variations of the past and present.

Takako Hamano

Takako Hamano [Japan, 1975] lives and works in Amsterdam. She studied sociology in Japan and art at the Gerrit Rietveld in Amsterdam. She has shown her work at the SieboldHuis [Leiden, 2009 ], De Kaap [Utrecht, 2008], Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery [Amsterdam, 2007] and Castello Svevo di Bari [Italy, 2005]
Kenzo Kusuda, a Japanese choreographer/danser reveals the poetry of the dancing body. He takes the audience to a world filled with imagination. His work is possessed of a mystic beauty that lies beyond the perception of our physical senses. Kusuda has collaborated with choreographers as Emio Greco/PC, Joaquim Sabaté, Elshout & Händeler, Shusaku Takeuchi, Martin Butler, Jack Gallagher, Desiree Delauny and film artist Boris Gerrets.

curator christine van den bergh