Annely Juda Fine Art is delighted to announce a new exhibition entitled Through from artist Yuko Shiraishi. Through presents a series of exquisite recent paintings and a major new architectural installation; ‘Bunk Bed Odyssey – Parallel Lullaby’.
Shiraishi is recognised for her abstract canvases with delicate layered brushwork and transparent washes revealing nuances of light and colour in bands or carefully placed dots and circles. New paintings in this exhibition reference Shiraishi’s long-standing fascination with dreams, which spans the scientific and the poetic and goes beyond the dreams we remember.
‘Bunk Bed Odyssey – Parallel Lullaby’ is a new installation work in Shiraishi’s ongoing ‘Imaginary Architectural Project’ series which includes previous works: ‘Space Elevator Tea House’, ‘Confession Box’ ‘Ancient Egyptian Tomb’ and ‘pass age’. This new piece examines the space that exists between two people sleeping on a bunk bed; they might be family, friends or strangers – and the location a house, train, ship, prison, hotel or school – physically occupying the same space but in their sleep, dreams taking them to completely different places. Shiraishi has said previously that her installation works also tap directly into her interests in the theory of the universe, architecture, space, humans and history and cites a multitude of influences spanning her Japanese cultural heritage, Taoist philosophy and western influences including science fiction writers and film makers such as Arthur C Clarke The Fountains of Paradise theorist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Stanley Kubric’s 2001 A Space Odyssey. With ‘Bunk Bed Odyssey – Parallel Lullaby’ Shiraishi says that the idea for this work came directly to her in a dream…