Satoru Shoju presents a Japanese spatial sculptural installation commissioned for the gallery.
A spatial sculptural installation by an inspiring Japanese artist commissioned for the north gallery.
One can hesitate to call Shoji's works sculpture. For over thirty years, his artistic activities have evolved around his continuing dialogue with the material of cloth. This dramatic installation will span the whole of the University of Brighton’s north gallery and is constructed out of several large strips of cloth hanging across the gallery with shapes strategically cut out.
The theme is based around the ideas of space and gravity. Making use of the suppleness, elasticity and at times the permeability of cloth, as well as the invisible force of gravity, he has continued to give visible form to these qualities in his works.The essence of his works can be found within the relationships among the object itself, made using cloth, the intervening gaps, and the space surrounding the object. Each work is made complete only when viewers step into the space of the cloth and sense it with their whole bodies.
Images from Satoru Shoji's installation, Dialogue with Cloth and members of staff enjoying the traditional Japanese tea ceremony in the installation.
