It was a rainy September afternoon in Queens, New York. A crowd of about 30 had gathered at the SculptureCenter to attend a performance by New York-based, Japanese artist Aki Sasamoto.

Sasamoto is best known for working across a variety of media, incorporating performance and dance with sculpture installations. Born in 1980 in Kanagawa, Japan, she received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2007, and has since exhibited internationally at major art galleries and museums.

Her performance at SculptureCenter coincided with the opening of the artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in the United States, at the said location, entitled “Aki Sasamoto: Delicate Cycle.” The audience followed the artist in what began as an ordinary laundry routine. She gathered a couple of shirts hanging on a wire in the outside courtyard, wet from the rain, and took them to the basement level of the museum in a cart. “I’m not sure we can all fit in here,” she said, amused, to the quiet audience, as we prepared to enter the elevator. 

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