Latest work Prints Other work by Sen + Sonja Sonja's design wrok
Photo: Miyuki Kasahara, 2008.
See: www.miyukikasahara.com
for more about this exhibition
Miyuki Kasahara worked with performance artist,
Calum F. Kerr on the theme of fractured communication
between people who speak completely different
languages.
She asked speakers of non-European languages to send
a message (like a message in a bottle) for the viewers in
the exhibition. She installed 180 of these as mysterious
'spy hole' messages into the walls with which visitors to
the opening were asked to respond to (to decipher the
unknown) with a pencil on paper, which was then passed
onto performance artist, Calum F. Kerr who then made
an interpretation in an adjoining space.
"For Whom Do You Speak?" was an exhibition curated by Miyuki Kasahara and Calum F. Kerr, 2-22 May 2008 in the Shed-and-a-half Gallery, London.
The two images above are 'messages' Sonja designed of Bahai prayers in New Zealand Maori. One is about wanting to shine as brilliantly as a star and the other is a blessing for one's spot, place, mountain, river, city, land and so on.
Left: Sen's text in Persian, with a transliteration.
For texts not utilizing the Roman alphabet she asked for a transliteration so visitors could try and articulate the sounds of these messages.
Photo: M. Kasahara, 2008, of Sen's text
of The 5th candle by 'Abdul-Baha'
in Persian with a transliteration.
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| 2009 | For Whom Do You Speak Shed-and-a-half Gallery, London, U.K. |