YUKI KIMURA: INHUMAN TRANSFORMATION OF NEW YEAR’S DECORATION, OBSOLETE CONCEPTION OR 2
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art
December 13, 2016 – February 25, 2017
Yuki Kimura translates abstract ideas into tangible objects. Because concept is paramount, her work borrows elements from architecture, design, photography, and sculpture in service of making the immaterial material.
She often includes found photographs, but their subject matter, composition, and context are subordinate to their presence as physical objects.
The elements in this exhibition of new work are doubled and multiplied. Pairs of photographs are blown up to human scale and hung together on a wall or transformed into matching tabletops.
Identical twin images reference a traditional Japanese New Year’s decoration that symbolizes the idea of a mirror as well as a Western philosophical concept of time in which past and present are intertwined.
Yuki Kimura (b. 1971, Kyoto, Japan) lives and works in Berlin.
