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. Read More Mika Tajima, Negative Entropy (Deep Brain Stimulation, Yellow, Full Width, Exa) (detail), 2024 © Mika Tajima Mika TajimaEnergeticsThe 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. Read More Installation view, Mika Tajima: Energetics, January 12 – February 24, 2024, Pace Gallery, New York © Mika Tajima All the works in the exhibition are similarly culturally coded, attune the senses to invisible energies, and shift the measure of time and space from human to geological, even astral, scale. —Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, author and curator Mika Tajima, Pranayama (Monolith, L, Rose Quartz), 2022 © Mika Tajima Mika Tajima, Pranayama (Monolith, R, Rose Quartz), 2024 © Mika Tajima 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. Read More Mika Tajima, Sense Object, (January 1st, 2023, United States), 2024 © Mika Tajima The historical correlation between modern weaving and computing is encoded in the Negative Entropy works, which also perform the processes of storage, retrieval, and transmission of information of the technologies that made them. —Matilde Guidelli-Guidi Mika Tajima, Naturans, 2024 © Mika Tajima Mika Tajima, Naturans, 2024 © Mika Tajima (opens in a new window) Browse our digital publications on IssuuExplore Pace Publishing Read More Journal View All PST - Los Angeles Gif Exhibitions Our Artists at Pacific Standard Time 2024 Sep 13, 2024 Films Mika Tajima on "Energetics," Her Latest Exhibition in New York Jan 25, 2024 Essays Pace Artists Reflect on Mark Rothko Oct 17, 2023 Pace Verso Mika Tajima: Archive of Feelings (January 1, 2023, United States of America) Mar 01, 2023 Pace Publishing — Mika Tajima: Energetics, Mar 1, 2024