• Mika Tajima • You Be My Body for Me, 2023•
Architectural configuration of freestanding panes of ‘smart glass’ change opacity through electric charges, activated by the presence of a viewer, mediated through an algorithm mapping connections in social media feeds, and conceal rose quartz sculptures.
In social media, the body is already elsewhere and nowhere: a substitute, outside of itself, evacuated, altered, enhanced, and illusory. Here the body is elucidated through translucent reflections, humankind is placed in relationship to others and connected by unimaginable forms.
