Artist-in-Residence: Rui Sasaki

Rui Sasaki is a Japanese conceptual artist whose work centers around the exploration and discovery of subtle intimacy in unfamiliar and familiar spaces, which she refers to as “empty space.” After moving to the U.S. in 2007, she experienced sensations of lost memories, nostalgia, and homesickness. She returned to Japan five years later, and felt an extreme emptiness toward the sense of home, a reverse culture shock, as she described it. Sasaki uses glass as a vehicle for preservation, recording the relationship between her body and her surroundings.
During her October 2016 residency at The Studio, she focused on a new body of work in preparation for her upcoming exhibition Herbarium, in Japan. The venue is the historical prestigious shrine called Houen-ji, from which she collected plants in the traditional Japanese garden to combine with glass through kilnworking and glass blowing.

[@masakoboissonnault8455]

Her work is incredible.

[@corningmuseumofglass]

We agree, thanks for watching!

[@KeanKennedy]

Very cool idea. There's one at 2:16 that seems to have developed a froth of bubbles, and almost looks like it's completely rendered in bubbles rather than ash. Awesome

[@jasonbutton3342]

stunning, thanks

[@nebulaoperator]

thanks. amazing idea.

[@Mijochda]

mind. blown.

[@ALAPINO]

Wow... I mean, wow. I've seen cast resins but not that.

[@user-qx7tm5df8j]

dont know why but its incredibly exhausting for me to listen to her english. nice work anyway

[@angelolorenzo2545]

I noticed her accent, but I still found her easy to listen to. A little more patience perhaps? There are also subtitles. Hope you didn't get too exhausted over there.

[@user-qx7tm5df8j]

nah.. i think its probably hard for me to keep track of what she says because english is not my first language.. ^^

[@angelolorenzo2545]

Ah, makes sense.