{"product_id":"aki-sasamoto-point-reflection-9781954939035","title":"Aki Sasamoto: Point Reflection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpiraling snail shells form the basis for Sasamoto's latest performance and installation works\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on the occasion of her standout solo exhibition at the Queens Museum, \u003ci\u003ePoint Reflection\u003c\/i\u003e is the first major volume devoted to the work of New York-based artist Aki Sasamoto (born 1980). Conceived as an artist's book, \u003ci\u003ePoint Reflection\u003c\/i\u003e centers on Sasamoto's major installation \u003ci\u003eSink or Float\u003c\/i\u003e, first presented at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Building on the artist's idiosyncratic research into snail shell chirality--the direction in which the shell coils--as a cypher for thinking through questions of change, aging, (non)normativity, vulnerability and natural processes, \u003ci\u003ePoint Reflection\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the diagrammatic visions, narrative experimentation, structured improvisations and stream-of-consciousness monologues characteristic of her performances and installations. The book features writing and drawings by Sasamoto, a critical essay by Lumi Tan, interviews with biologists conducted by the artist and an afterword by Queens Museum curator Hitomi Iwasaki.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954939035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176","brand":"Aki Sasamoto","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44174075855029,"sku":"9781954939035","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ccf4c1ab-c23a-4315-9171-83896e74dda0.jpg?v=1716300475","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/aki-sasamoto-point-reflection-9781954939035","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}