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Double Square Gallery is delighted to present Japanese artist Miyuki Yokomizo’s solo exhibition, Visible．Invisible, which runs from May 7 to June 18. The artist’s first solo exhibition at Double Square Gallery features more than thirty paintings and installations. Using canvas as a base, the artist creates her paintings by plucking and pulling innumerous strings to create tapestries of horizontal and vertical lines on canvas, evoking the process of weaving while enabling the spectator to perceive the accumulation of action and time. Furthermore, the minimalistic installation comprising found objects on view on the gallery’s second floor makes use of thin and light wooden flakes wrapped with gold and silver foil, demonstrating a silky, supple appearance freed from gravity. As natural light bounces off of the metal surfaces through the progressing time, the space becomes vividly dynamic, displaying a flow of light and shadow. Using “visible and the invisible” as her theme, Yokomizo uses her works to immerse the audience in “invisible yet existing” sensory experiences.

The exhibition title, Visible．Invisible, beckons at the artistic idea put forth by the artist. Living in an era of information flood, characterized by waves after waves of apocalyptic threats, Yokomizo shifts her attention to invisible existences that can be felt but imperceptible to the naked eye, continuously exploring the possibility of artistic creation through an individualistic perspective. The artist specializes in interpreting and deciphering space-time and light through visualization, and applies this concept to her two-dimensional works. This body of two-dimensional works featured in this exhibition is based on an installation, titled red cage, which was created during the artist’s residency at the Taipei Artist Village in 2003. To the artist, her way of making painting is informed by techniques of sculpture making. In this case, painting, which is commonly in two-dimensional form, is converted and reconstructed from sculpture. The artist first applies oil paint unto thin strings that are arranged in a elaborately calculated manner, and then plucks the strings with the tips of her fingers to shoot and transfer paint unto the canvas. The structure and performance created through the process of repetition not only explore the energy in the space, but also form the artist’s signature art-making method. Her images keep a precise density of interspaces composed of lines, while visualizing the “multiple-simplicity” intended by the artist for her works. By preserving intentionally all the texture produced by the ejected paint from the vertical lines, Yokomizo underlines the “uncertainty” in perception and stages a multi-colored, three-dimensional performance on flat canvas.