A new art exhibition in Gallery 59 in Gander, NL, will make it think a bit different about office supplies.
(In) Visible is an exhibition by Visual Artist Leslie Sasaki, who now lives in Port Blandford, made with Plexiglas, a magical Boxcutter and Scotch Brand ribbon.
Sasaki takes off the strips, each layer adds a little more shadow, as if it were a pencil. He says it is a way to explore how people feel invisible in society.
“The portraits are very fugitive or a bit fragile. While you walk through space, they will change a bit. They are very contingent with light, and that is like people,” he said.
It is an art project that began almost 20 years ago when Sasaki was a professor at the Grenfell campus of the Memorial University.
He was experiencing with different materials, finally doing a self -portrait with adhesive tape.
That photo has followed each office that has been occupied since then. While he was in Hamilton, Ontario, Sasaki was asked to create an exhibition of tape portraits.
But I wanted it to be much more.
In addition to making an image in his similarity, Sasaki sat down to talk to each person.
“The attached tape is used for labeling, but it is also repaired. That made me think a little about the metaphor of being invisible,” Sasaki said.
He says that creating the portraits is the easy part for him, and the most pleasant part of the project was to meet the people he recreated with tape.
“Everyone has a story. It does not have to be the most spectacular, glamorous and sexy story in history, but everyone has a history and pure humanity, the daily humanity of it, makes it incredible.”
The exhibition in Gander presents eight portraits, some of the original exhibition in Hamilton and some new ones that he has created since he returned to Terranova.
“I think we all have different moments, where we feel a bit ignored, ignored,” he said.
In the decades since he made the first image, says Sasaki, he could not have imagined that this project was still going, and in the complete circle, back in the province, where it all started near one of his favorite art pieces.
“I really feel excited that my work is here. And just to my right is the mural Ken Lockheed, which is an incredible work of art, a Canadian treasure, as far as I am concerned.”
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