Galerie Chantal Crousel is pleased to present an installation by Yuki Kimura as part of Art Basel's 2023 edition of Unlimited, on booth U69, in collaboration with Taka Ishii Gallery.

The installation COL SPORCAR SI TROVA by Yuki Kimura presents sculptures, whose plinths are decorated with Tromp-l’œil renderings of marble textures that continue the play with black-and-white and positive-negative contrasts. They demonstrate both the complexity of highly skilled manual work and the seductive potential of the entirely artificial, of illusion and decor. The artist thereby alludes to the complex and politically contested role of decoration and craft within art and architecture, conscious of the fact that notions of dematerialization and deskilling have exerted a decisive influence on (post-)Conceptual art practices (including her own), and that manual skills are often devalued in this context.

Like her earlier readymade works, her new sculptures use multiplication and scaling to destabilize the perception and appearance of an object. The five mirror balls, the eponymous object reflects the surrounding space in miniature and distorted form through a fisheye perspective. This view reveals an invisible space-within-the-space, or a sort of magic and expanded sight. 

Just as optical effects of positive-negative-contrasts reveal the different realities of an object, Kimuras modifications of spatial experience bring supposedly stable physical parameters (such as size, weight, material, length/width/height/depth) and the relationship between interior and exterior space into motion in a profound way. 

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