Exhibition details
How do the smallest of spaces allow us to comprehend the vastness of the universe? How can a sense of the infinite be found in the finite? Is it possible to fold the cosmos? These questions have long animated the work of Japanese designer and interior architect Miwako Kurashima. This roving and mutable installation gives form to this interplay between the intimate and infinite, offering a quiet space for gathering and contemplation.
Artist details
This exhibition is Kurashima’s contemporary interpretation of Matsuura’s One-Mat Room. Visitors are invited to gather on the modular seating arrangement, which was inspired in part by the seating components of Isamu Noguchi’s design for the UNESCO Garden (1956–58) in Paris. Kurashima has also drawn a connection between this space and the “folding universes” of Noguchi’s collapsible Akari light sculptures, which have been a lifelong source of inspiration for her.
Location
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
9-01 33rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard)
Long Island City, New York 11106
Image: Miwako Kurashima, * folding cosmos, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain, 2017. Tea bowl: Koichi Uchida. Photo / courtesy of The Noguchi Museum