Robots

Yoshimi Arts

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The boundary between imagination and reality is a common theme for Haruko Sasakawa, ever since the early years of her career as an artist. “Hollow Fighter” is one such representative work, originally presented in 2009, it plays with the usual strong and brave figure of a robot warrior, but flips that pre-conception by making the warrior out of soft transparent plastic. The robot modeled from thin vinyl, muddles imagination and reality, and surprises us by subverting our own expectations towards fiction.
Sasakawa’s robots might tell us something about the new narrative of this world, where imagination becomes reality, and robots which often appear in anime and pop culture, are produced in our actual world, and becoming more familiar for us as technology advances.