Kelly Akashi

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2014-2015

Kelly Akashi is a Japanese-American artist whose work attempts to convey "the intangible fleeting quality of life and of experiences". By making casts of her hands at different points in time and arranging them with other objects, Akashi has created a sort of "archive of sensations". Her pieces emphasize the similarities between physical models and photographic records, and she has used glass, wax, bronze, and knotted ropes to express the fragility of perception. In this way, the artist communicates the material joy transmitted through the contrast between abstract forms and the actual bodies, evanescence and eternity, and testimony and sacrifice.

Medium

Bronze, lead, blown and sculpted glass, wax, cotton wick, alabaster, nickel, urethane, borosilicate glass, fingernails, antique beads, Solomon’s borosilicate glass, enamel paint, wood, silver gelatin, oil

Dimensions

Variable size