iraki Sawa’s latest exhibition at Parafin was informed, according to the gallery’s press release, by two recent events in the artist’s life marked by dislocation and loss. In 2017, Sawa’s parents sold and moved out of his childhood home in Kanazawa, and in 2022, along with many other artists, Sawa was evicted from his studio in the Ridley Road complex in Dalston, an aggressively gentrifying neighborhood in
