Painting

Mika Tajima: Penumbra

Name: Mika Tajima: Penumbra
Start: 2024-10-31T00:00:00+08:00
End: 2024-12-21T23:59:59+08:00
Location: Pace Gallery Hong Kong

31 October - 21 December

Free

Pace Gallery Hong Kong

EVENT DESCRIPTION

On view from October 31 to December 21, this will be Tajima’s first-ever solo show in Hong Kong, presenting a holistic view of her multidisciplinary practice through four bodies of work.

Marked by its scientific and philosophical rigor, Tajima’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 center 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. She is represented in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., among other major institutions, and in 2024 she mounted two solo exhibitions in New York, at Pace Gallery and the Hill Art Foundation.

In her upcoming show in Hong Kong, Tajima will present works from four of her most established series, including her Art d’Ameublement paintings, Pranayama and Anima sculptures, and Negative Entropy textiles. The exhibition’s title, Penumbra, refers to the marginal, indefinite space of partial illumination or the imperfect shadow between full shadow and full light. For Tajima, this phenomenon is connected to the mercurial nature of perception and nuance, and the fluid entanglement of control and freedom. Together, the artworks on view in her presentation with Pace will explore existential questions about human agency through transfigurations of colors, forms, and energies.