Fujiko Nakaya’s Dreamy Cloud Sculpture Hits Bourse de Commerce
Now on view until September 14.
Summary
- Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya presents “Cloud #07156,” a new work in her Fog Sculpture series
- The immersive piece is on view at Bourse de Commerce in Paris through September 14
A monumental fog sculpture by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya has touched down at Bourse de Commerce in Paris, enveloping the museum’s cinematic rotunda in a cloud.
After pivoting from painting in the mid-160s, Nakaya has kept steadfast in her pioneering fog art practice. Part of the new Clair-obscur exhibition, the latest piece, “Cloud #07156,” takes shape as dense, vaporous sea, made possible through high-pressure pumps and custom-engineered nozzles. This mist reacts organically to air currents, ambient temperature and the body heat of its inhabitants, shifting as audiences move through it.
While Nakaya’s sculptures usually play out across natural landscapes, the Paris museum offers the perfect interior stage. As white plumes ebb and flow, the artwork creates a tension between visibility and physical presence, slowly concealing and revealing edges of the Tadao Ando-designed concrete rotunda.
“Its partial, fleeting transparencies create a kind of anti-panopticon that constantly destabilises and defies our capacity of observation,” wrote art critic and curator Anne-Marie Duguet in the exhibition catalogue. “This is no longer a question of single or multiple viewpoints, [but] visibility itself.”
“Cloud #07156” by Fujiko Nakaya is now on view in Paris until September 14.
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
2 Rue de Viarmes,
75001 Paris, France
