Beyond the Horizon

A.A. Murakami’s installation functions as a disruptor of modes of representation. Contrary to everything we had perceived throughout the visit, throughout the space dedicated to the construction of illusion, contrary to the certainty we had placed in believing that the cloud was not an element that could be contained within an exhibition space, to the conviction that such an element could be nothing more than a projection, a photomontage, an illusion with no correspondence to reality, we suddenly find ourselves confronted with majestic clouds that are, in fact, physically present in the space.

A.A.Murakami’s installation thus reintroduces us, from this newly discovered point of view, into this space of technical containment, into an illusory world that we are unable to fully comprehend, recovering – from another position – one of the recurring and central images in the process of constructing illusion. 

A.A.Murakami

Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves have backgrounds spanning art, architecture and design. They met at the Royal College of Art in London before founding Studio Swine, their experimental practice exploring sustainable materials, and later A.A.Murakami, which pioneers “ephemeral tech”. They have held major solo exhibitions at the M+ Museum in Hong Kong and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Their work has also been presented at the Grand Palais in Paris, the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and features in the collections of MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, the M+, and Vitra Design Museum.

www.aamurakami.com