Midori Harima
Story Spoken by Outline
That room, like a long, narrow road is not
put there to separate inside and outside.It just borrows the
from of inside and outside. I feel that the concepts of "in" and
"out" are merely forms that are just
outlines. According to the outline of words space is divided. Sculpture is
made up of surface
information. Visual information exists under the skin of surface information
as a vast premise of
structual elements, they exist in a
place that is not perceived. The work is created by all things reflected
in the eyes along with the system of perception.
The copy material is blessed with both possibility and lack of possibility.
Information that cannot be seen and states
we cannot see are indicated by signs on the surface, those
signs are seen together with the information that can be seen.
The powder spread in the box colors time and
space and leaves traces of them, acting as a guide to lead
and aid in sight.
Something usually happens within that room,
what that is I don't know. I don't know the story spoken
there. I just borrow the form of the story. Speaking about the story only
with the outline is not creation
but dismantlement. Even though it is meaningless we continue the action of
scooping up the stuff that
rises to the surface, not in resistance, not in supplication, but in affirmation.
Placed with in that room is a sculpture that
symbolizens something. Even if what is symbolized is null it
still indicates something new. That indication is not read but seen by eyes
that exist in the past, present
and future.
Midori Harima
1976 Yokohama, Japan
Education & Experience:
2000 Women's University of FIne Art, Kanagawa
Bachelor of Arts in oil painting
and printmaking
Selected Solo Exhibition:
2000 Ginza Gallry Forest, Tokyo
2001 Clean Castration 300 Days Gallery, Tokyo
Exhibition T.L.A.P, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2000 Jugemu [Fake] SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
2001 Retrospective Exhibition, 300 Days Gallery, Tokyo
2002 The Bay Area Award Show 2002 Beginnigless Story New Langton Art,
San Francisco
Bay Area Now 3 This State Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San
Francisco
2003 Revealing Influences Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco
MIDORI HARIMA is an installation artist.
Recent efforts feature her work in place assembling paper
sculptures built up from xerographic copies. Her main themes address signification,
the confirmation of
existence and search for meaning. She has built site specific installation
in the United States and Japan
where she also exhibits.