Memory Functions Welcomes New Starts + Old Memories
Yuko Nishikawa invites visitors of Memory Functions to interact with 200+ mobiles made from pieces of recycled paper pulp that can be reused again for future projects.
Yuko Nishikawa’s Memory Functions represents the blank slate that comes with taking up residence in a new space, a new phase of life that builds upon existing memories. This is the Brooklyn-based Japanese designer and contemporary ceramicist’s largest solo exhibition to date, and the first of The Brooklyn Home Company?s art residency series, focused on environmental issues through a site-specific installation.
?When I visited The Butler Collection, I felt excitement arising within me,? says Nishikawa. ?Making installations within a residential environment is exciting because my work is displayed in a space that will hold and witness living. I want to make work that accompanies ordinary, everyday moments.?
Nishikawa invites visitors to the residential unit where the exhibition is housed to interact with over 200 whimsical mobiles. She’s made the pieces of each from recycled paper pulp that’s processed in-house, then colored so that it can be reused again for future projects. Nishikawa gets these materials from other artists and businesses around her studio in East Williamsburg.
As visitors make their way through the space, each mobile moves slightly ? an example of how each one of us impacts their physical environment. In the living room, cloud-like white mobiles symbolize th...
Yuko Nishikawa’s Memory Functions represents the blank slate that comes with taking up residence in a new space, a new phase of life that builds upon existing memories. This is the Brooklyn-based Japanese designer and contemporary ceramicist’s largest solo exhibition to date, and the first of The Brooklyn Home Company?s art residency series, focused on environmental issues through a site-specific installation.
?When I visited The Butler Collection, I felt excitement arising within me,? says Nishikawa. ?Making installations within a residential environment is exciting because my work is displayed in a space that will hold and witness living. I want to make work that accompanies ordinary, everyday moments.?
Nishikawa invites visitors to the residential unit where the exhibition is housed to interact with over 200 whimsical mobiles. She’s made the pieces of each from recycled paper pulp that’s processed in-house, then colored so that it can be reused again for future projects. Nishikawa gets these materials from other artists and businesses around her studio in East Williamsburg.
As visitors make their way through the space, each mobile moves slightly ? an example of how each one of us impacts their physical environment. In the living room, cloud-like white mobiles symbolize th...
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