Aiko’s recent exhibition at Andrew James Fine Art in Shanghai was actually made entirely in that Chinese city while she participated in the gallery’s residency program. This locality lends the work a different significance, a home-grown quality that’s reflected in the mix-in of Shanghai street signs and graphic elements. What we see is not so much a heroic, tragic artist struggling to produce a masterpiece, but a practicing artist reflecting the time and the place she occupies.
A devoured hedge burrows deep II Opens a Portal Into the Future of Urban Life
By interacting with Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer’s spatial installation in Prague, viewers create speculative scenarios for an ecologically aware city.