Moko Fukuyama “Untitled (Diorama)”
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery
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SOHO20 presents Untitled (Diorama), by Moko Fukuyama, one of the +/- Project Space’s three open call artists.
Untitled (Diorama) relates longevity and mortality to one of our most ubiquitous modern processes: the automatic car wash. This sculptural and video installation, reminiscent of a diorama, evokes the passage of an automobile through its cleaning process. Framed by car wash bristles, looped video shows the artist’s own mother as she visits her future burial site, where she invites the artist to one day join her. This rite of passage, as mundane and practical as going to a car wash, embodies a certain poetic resignation: a bittersweet suspension of time. Fukuyama brings together living and dying, juxtaposing the natural and synthetic, as well as the inertia of life and the stillness of memory. Untitled (Diorama) is a meditation on passing from one state to another, being carried effortlessly forward in a vessel on a track to a new habitat.
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from November 16, 2018 to December 15, 2018