Huddled collectively like birds of a feather or standing resolutely on their very own, Masako Miki’s vibrant, playful sculptures come to life on the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. Whether or not standing on spindly legs, seated on the bottom, or suspended from the ceiling, there’s a sense of motion and vitality within the room, as if every characterful object may skitter or roll away on the slightest provocation.
Miki’s solo exhibition Midnight March is now open at ICA SF’s new exhibition area, The Dice, which prompts a former financial institution constructing as a web site for non-traditional exhibition displays. The Japanese artist units her mixed-media items, which incorporate supplies like wool, bronze, wooden, ink, and watercolor, right into a darkened, starry inside by which every vibrant, cartoonish particular person seems to glow.
Largely summary of their nebulous varieties, felted textures, and colourful patterns, Miki’s sculptures typically trace at a life drive inside. A single eye friends from a blue form in “Enchanting Pine Tree Reaching Clouds” or human-like legs lengthen to the ground in “Umbrella’s Whispers.” We start to understand that we’re being noticed as a lot as we’re observing.
“Midnight March helps us perceive deeper features of Miki’s ‘othered’ figures and acknowledge distinction as a optimistic drive, at the same time as we’re unsettled by it,” says an exhibition assertion.
The indigo sky all through the exhibition enhances Miki’s two-dimensional works, which she calls Night time Parades, welcoming guests into an experiential context. The artist says, “I hope that my works generate the form of curiosity and empathy that permits us to return collectively.”
Midnight March continues by way of December 7 in San Francisco, and you’ll discover extra on the artist’s website and Instagram.
