Japanese-Australian Hugs
2 years, 2 months ago
A friend and member of the Japanese art students’ collective “A-trippers”, Haruka Nishii, is exhibiting as part of the “4 LDK” exhibition themed on Japanese-Australian distance/connection. The exhibition is being held at Arts on Bourke in Sydney, opened Monday the 6th, and will close Sunday 11th.
Haruka has a cute concept of the universality of hugs, and has created a perfectly unintimidating, accepting free hug partner - Cecil (pictured above). Of course I’m biased, but I think Haruka’s is easily one of the best works there - there are alot of very literal explorations of the question of distance, with the exception of a few sculptures, and of course hers involves fun patron participation.
Pictures are taken capturing the sublime experience of huggedness, and I’ve offered to serve them from here. Once the exhibition is over the scanned polaroids will be archived at: http://hugs.neonascent.com.