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Asako Shiroki - Evergreen - April 24
1. Asako Shiroki is based in Berlin and Tokyo.
2. Reminiscent of the size of the human heart, the glass bottle holds a distillation of pine needles gathered from both nations Japan and Korea, weighing precisely 21 grams—a figure mythically believed to be the weight of the human soul. The liquid releases the characteristic scent of pine trees, a scent that almost everyone associates with some memory or other.
3. Asako Shiroki is based in Berlin and Tokyo.
4. [...] Melting into color. This work features two photographs of pine trees from Korea and Japan. [...] The photographs are deliberately out of focus, transforming the pines into abstract patterns of color. By adjusting the camera’s lens to defocus, the finer details are obscured, yet paradoxically, this allows the intrinsic nature of the subjects to be perceived with greater clarity. As if the object’s very dissolution revealed the essence of its soul. [...] (Text: Clemens Espenlaub)
5. [...] The pivotal work Evergreen, hanging from the ceiling on a silver chain, is at the center of the room. The term „center“ however, is somewhat misleading here. Evergreen is not only a spatial object, which begins on the floor alluding to the coastline of Japan and Korea and ends in the air with a glass bottle reminiscent of the size of a human heart. [...] (Text: Clemens Espenlaub)
6. [...] The video installation Invisible yet still green was conceived amidst the distillation process of extracting pine scent. The focus, however, is less on the actual production and more on the abstract transitions between states of matter: Solid needles turn into liquid and ultimately into scent. In this work, too, boundaries are crossed, albeit in an even more radical sense: What is shown here is not only the dissolution of a spatial sculpture into scent (as in Evergreen), nor the dissolution of an object into pure color (as in Melting into color), but the dissolution of materiality itself, the detachment from any physical form, reminiscent of a soul's journey from one state (or embodiment or memory) to another. (Text: Clemens Espenlaub)
ASAKO SHIROKI
Evergreen
Apr 19 – May 4 2024, Opening hours Sat 1–6 pm, due to Gallery Weekend also Sun, Apr 28, 1–6 pm, Finissage May 4, 6 pm
the Gimp, Wilhelm-Kabus-Str. 28 / Haus 3.3, 10829 Berlin
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