Mika Tajima Publication Details:Co-published by Inventory Press and Kayne GriffinTexts by Mika Yoshitake, T’ai Smith, edited by Eugenia BellDesign by (opens in a new window) ELLA2022Hardcover188 pages11 x 9 in120 color imagesShop: (opens in a new window) Order NowLearn More:Mika TajimaExhibition:Mika Tajima: Air MaxJul 13 – Aug 13, 2022 Read More Co-published by Inventory Press and Kayne Griffin, this book takes a deep dive into Mika Tajima’s sculptures, paintings, videos, and new media installations from 2003–2021.Full color reproductions and special sections rendered on semi-transparent paper document Tajima’s work from the 2019 Okayama Art Summit, her early performances, and her exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and other venues. The book’s pierced cover highlights her signature cast bronze spa jet nozzles.An introduction by independent curator Mika Yoshitake outlines the scope of Tajima’s oeuvre, including her collaborators and influences, while an essay by Professor T’ai Smith explores the conceptual underpinnings of her work. In a conversation with Yoshitake, Tajima opens a window to her thinking surrounding her exciting multidisciplinary practice. Read More If Tajima’s practice is conceptual (if it operates in the abstract domain of ideas), it is also, as she says, fundamentally sculptural—that is, dimensional. Just as metaphors can leap from one thing to another, from physical things to ideas and back again, her material output traverses the unstable connections among these terms. T’ai Smith That’s what I was tapping into—things we don’t fully know, can’t fully access, like deep sea creatures or aliens... I’m interested in the thing that’s hidden, that’s invisible. Mika Tajima in Conversation with Mika Yoshitake Mika Tajima (opens in a new window) Order Now (opens in a new window) Explore Our Books (opens in a new window) Browse Our Shop Read More Pace Publishing — Mika Tajima, Aug 16, 2022