Dec 7, 2024 – Feb 23, 2025
Tomomi Yamakawa
eclair, 2024
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eclair, 2024
Staples
14,7 × 3,8 × 2,6 cm
Edition of 3, with certificate450 €
Tomomi Yamakawa’s work focuses on the everyday objects that we keep close at hand and with which we maintain unspoken, co-dependent relationships. For her series of architectural model-like sculptures, the artist uses staples, whose ubiquity exudes the banal, recalcitrant aura of bureaucratic coercion. The edition eclair (2024), whose shape is reminiscent of the buttery-soft dessert, emerged from an intuitive, tactile engagement with stubborn material. The time-consuming task of adding each new staple does not make the sculpture more stable, but rather makes it an increasingly vulnerable construction, shaped by a human’s gentle touch and devotion to the object. Through Yamakawa’s small, careful gestures, alternative perspectives on materials are opened up, on another, perhaps harmonious parallel life. Or, as Brian Eno once said in a similar vein about ambient music for specific times and situations: “It’s intended to induce calm and a space to think.”