Mika Tajima: Penumbra
WHAT
The New York-based artist (b.1975) is known for employing sculpture, painting, media installation, and performance in her conceptual practice. In her first-ever solo show in Hong Kong, a holistic view of her multi-disciplinary practice is presented through 4 bodies of work. This includes her ‘Art d’Ameublement’ paintings, ‘Pranayama’ and ‘Anima’ sculptures, and ‘Negative Entropy’ textiles. The exhibition’s title refers to the marginal, indefinite space of partial illumination or the imperfect shadow between full shadow and full light. Her presentation explores existential questions about human agency through transfigurations of colours, forms, and energies.
WHY
The artist’s work across painting, sculpture, installation, and performance often takes up questions of identity and agency in a world increasingly influenced and mitigated by technology. At the centre of the artist’s practice are her investigations of the ways that different digital and aesthetic technologies manifest as intertwined material, perceptual, and psychic experiences.