Delve into Mika Tajima's scientific and philosophical practice with our new digital catalogue accompanying Energetics, the artist's first-ever solo exhibition at Pace's New York gallery. 

Mika Tajima

Energetics

The Energetics digital catalogue, available to read above, features a new essay by Dia Art Foundation Curator Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, who situates Tajima’s debut show at Pace within the larger continuum of her practice and career. The digital book’s detail images of Tajima’s large-scale Negative Entropy textile paintings—woven spectrograms forged from records of brain activity—showcase the textural and formal intricacies of these works, and installation views of the artworks in Energetics speak to the exhibition’s immersive dimension.

In her work across performance, sculpture, painting, and installation, Tajima takes up questions of identity and agency in a world increasingly influenced and mitigated by technology. In Energetics, her first presentation with Pace since she joined the gallery’s program in 2022, the artist exhibited sculptural, textile, and evolving sensorial works that invite questions of what it means to be an individual in the context of geologic and technological time and, in this contemporary moment, amid the inexorable rise of big data.