SculptureCenter is pleased to present Aki Sasamoto's first solo exhibition in a U.S. museum. Working at the intersection of performance and sculpture, Sasamoto creates object scenarios out of narratives and actions. For her exhibition in SculptureCenter's lower level galleries, Sasamoto will create a new body of work in relation to the site.

The dung beetle resourcefully rolls its home and food into one mobile unit, an activity that operates as a starting point for Sasamoto's exhibition. Featuring new sculptural units that similarly roll through the space, once activated by Sasamoto these units become rotating sites that explore neuroses around cleanliness and filth. Rotation reappears in an installation of washing and drying machines modified and periodically used by the artist in her performances. The exhibition also includes a new video and other sculptures that touch on "base" elements and repression.

A cycle of performances articulating the stream of consciousness and associations between the various elements—such as the washing machines, bed sheets, and mobile units—that Sasamoto has incorporated in her sculptures are scheduled for the following dates:

Sunday, September 18, 4:30: SOLD OUT
Please contact info@sculpture-center.org to be added to the wait list.
Saturday, September 24, 3pm: SOLD OUT
Please contact info@sculpture-center.org to be added to the wait list.
Saturday, October 22, 3pm
Saturday, November 19, 3pm
Saturday, December 17, 3pm

Spaces are free but extremely limited. Please RSVP by clicking above.

Aki Sasamoto (born 1980 in Kanagawa, Japan. Lives and works in New York) has been included in group exhibitions such asRoppongi Crossing 2013: Out of Doubt at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2013); A Spoken Word Exhibition at Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (2013); A LIKENESS HAS BLISTERS at CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2012); and theWhitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010). Recent performances include Food Rental at the High Line, New York (2015); Wrong Happy Hour/The Last Call at Parasophia, Japan (2015); and Sunny in the Furnace at The Kitchen, New York (2014).

The exhibition is curated by SculptureCenter Curator Ruba Katrib and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication with texts by Katrib and Jody Graf, a New York-based writer and curator, with a contribution by Sasamoto.

Aki Sasamoto: Delicate Cycle is generously support by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the Kraus Family Foundation; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the A. Woodner Fund; Jeanne Donovan Fisher; and contributions from our Board of Trustees and Director's Circle. Additional support is provided by the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation and The Japan Foundation, New York.