Manami Hayasaki uses a scalpel s other artists might use a pencil. Haysaki cuts large sheets of thin black card with the intricacy and instinctive invention of a spider constructing a web.
Manami Hayasaki graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2007 and has since been exhibiting from London to Japan.
Hayasaki’s subject matter alternates between the organic forms of nature and the invented forms of toys. The appearance of these closely observed silhouettes is reminiscent of zoological illustration, and there are several works in which the artist seems to be evoking the classification indices of science. This is a playful appropriation – the composition are decided entirely on aesthetic grounds, skewed with a dry whimsy
Hayasaki’s skill is virtuosic, but it is the maturity of her imagination – for an artist in her twenties – that is so arresting. Her subject matter, broadly speaking, is a playful interpretation of humans’ interactions with the natural world.
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