A.A. Murakami: A Thousand Layers of Stomach at Pearl Lam
This one was not easy to understand right off the bat. This one makes me unnecessarily verbose. But bear with me, I have a point. I feel that works by A.A. Murakami (also known as Studio Swine which stands for Super Wide Interdisciplinary New Explorers because artists love making your life easy) are so heavily research-based that the actual art part of their practice can easily be hidden behind architectural, social, ecological, environmental, and technological parts. There’s a beauty in making something digitally natural and organically simulated, the elegance in the process of imitating natural with man-made materials, and using natural to create artificial. I feel like the art making process is rhyming with digestion one — don’t worry, I will not continue with this metaphor to the end — a thousand layers of metaphorical stomach lining are participating in breaking up the taken whole into parts and bits, making them absorbable and reusable for building new structures.
Or maybe I am just hungry and want mushroom soup.
Exhibition period: 9 December—15 May
Gallery address: 6/F, The Pedder Building, Central
