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Cut Papers

Centre Pompidou-Metz

1 Parvis Des 

Droits de l'Homme

57020 Metz

2013

Programme du Centre Pompidou-Metz – Février 2013 

tout-metz.com/programme-entre-pompidou-metz-fevrier-2013-336.php

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Sachiko Abe performed Cut Papers in front of an exhibition of drawings by the artist at The Studio Space at Metz Pompidou Centre.

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The artist's more recent works continue to explore disquieting routines that provoke anxiety and touch us in ways we cannot explain. Cut Papers is a series of works that created a surplus of meaning within an apparently simple aesthetic economy. In Cut Papers Abe invited the audience to experience an intimate space in which the constant snipping of scissor blades was the only measure of time passing.

 

‘Be warned,’ Abe says, ‘my work is neither beautiful nor meditational’. Rather, it’s an aesthetic paradox that locates the artist at the centre of a field of reciprocal subjectivity: as an object of the gaze that returns to the subject, activating a feedback loop. It is this scenic space of perception and production that is the focus of the work.

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