Aki Sasamoto: Point Reflection

Spiraling snail shells form the basis for Sasamotos latest performance and installation works Published on the occasion of her standout solo exhibition at the Queens Museum, Point Reflection is the first major volume devoted to the work of New Yorkbased artist Aki Sasamoto (born 1980). Conceived as an artists book, Point Reflection centers on Sasamotos major installation Sink or Float, first presented at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Building on the artists idiosyncratic research into snail shell chiralitythe direction in which the shell coilsas a cypher for thinking through questions of change, aging, (non)normativity, vulnerability and natural processes, Point Reflection 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.