From the text by Pierre
Restany
(catalogue "Mont-de-Marsan sculptures, - Japan - Creations in-situation
1997")
Downstream
from the bridge, the Midouze, on
the bank of the Silguy quay, the former river port from which the
barges carrying the casks of Armagnac joined the Adour and Bayonne,
Shigeko Hirakawa has developed the second part of her installation in a
partially degraded site : over a total length of 130 m, on the
abandoned banks, she has drawn a wavy path made from a succession of
three ellipses composed of the red earth from the local arenas and
alternating piles of stumps (roots on the top/ roots on the bottom) and
ordinary blocks. The symbology of the ellipse with this artist reflects
the dualism of the term : foreshortening of the geometric ellipse which
evokes the compression of the earth ; foreshortening of the syntactic
ellipse which corresponds to a strategy of omission in speech and which
calls on notions of what is missing and empty. Kuniyasu's spiral evokes
the return to me, Shigeko Hirakawa's ellipse evokes another turning
inward of the being on the essential dialectic between life and
death. Life in the semi-sphere of the drinking place, death in the hem
of the banks of the Midouze...
* life :
Transmutation / Life
* death : Family
Tree
(Genealogical Tree) / Death
Text
by
Shigeko Hirakawa (catalogue "Mont-de-Marsan sculptures, -
Japan -
Creations in-situation
1997")
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