Shigeko Hirakawa

Presented artworks:
"Domesticated Water", "Sky-Water", "Water Circulation", "Roots", Drawings, Photos.

In the garden, Domesticated Water presents giant “lenses” of water tinted a fluorescent yellowish-green around the edges and darker green in the centre. This water is “tamed, separated from nature, enclosed and unmoving”, enveloped in soft transparent plastic and dyed with fluorescein, a substance used for tracking the flow of underground water. It is this coloured water which provides the Ariandne’s clue allowing the visitor to track the flow of the work’s design, to clearly locate and distinguish; we are surely in the realm of an experiment, an experimentation. The artificial color also gives the water an aspect which is, paradoxically, even more abstract and more universal.

[more text ... see Olivier Delavallade's text...from the catalog "Water Followed"]




	Water-Underground 2001 Installation on the ground floor Dimension : 15 x 0,5 x 2 m Glass containers filled with bubbling fluorescent water 13 glass containers, wood, iron, water, florescein, spotlights, air pumps




		Water Circulation 2001 Installation on the ground floor Dimension : 7,5 x 3 x 2,5 m. Circulating fluorescent water, basin : 110 cm diameter, hose, water pump




	Sky-Water 2001 Installation on the first floor Dimension : 17m x 7.5m x 2.8 m 14 blue fireproofed cloth items, 6 pots (60cm in diameter each), soil, plants



	Roots



	Domesticated Water 2001 Installation in the grounds Dimension: 16m x 12.5 m 10 elements of 130cm and 150 cm in diameter Water, fluorescein, PVC, wood

- Water Followed