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Miwa Koizumi
featured artist at Greenwich House Pottery
Statement from: www.greenwichhousepottery.org
The Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery presents Miwa Koizumi's first solo exhibition: "Molecules," a multimedia performance/installation.
The installation is comprised of three elements that position one's desire for permanence against changing realities. The first, "Molecule", is a performance piece conducted during the show's opening in which small food samples are presented as a synonym for the present time. The second, "The Genes of a Collection," contains four light boxes, each with its own theme: "belief-religion, text-culture, world-space, and body-self." Within the boxes, flasks of purified water and strips of 35mm film, coiled like DNA, are slowly dissolving and shedding color. "World 0-3" is the third part of the installation, and its most recent addition. Two glass vitrines contain slip-cast porcelain 'molecules' that play with the traditional perception of that material's purity and perfection. Smooth, nebulous and delicate, the forms interact, lying next to each other, stacked, and broken-arranged in configurations suggestive of the variant combinations of genetic coding including the so-called mutant and normal.
The shared, cross-cultural belief or desire for a fixed world, one that can be mastered or known is continually thwarted by the laws of nature. Koizumi's work explores this human conundrum juxtaposing contrasting materials and ideas. In each aspect of this installation, Koizumi identifies the reality of impermanence, decay, and mutation though a series of poetic and beautiful scenarios.
Miwa Koizumi received an MFA from Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan and a second from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Her installations employ a range of media in interactive environments and site-specific situations. Her work has been exhibited internationally in several group invitational shows in Japan, France, and the U.S. Koizumi is the current Artist-in-Residence at Greenwich House Pottery.
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