SHIMURABros contemplate Eliasson’s work ‘Two untought thoughts’, 2015.
In this intervention, two large spheres, one of glass and one of obsidian, appeared unexpectedly on a pile of rubble situated between houses in the village of Dong Zhuang, China. Executed in conjunction with the artist’s exhibition at Vitamin Creative Space’s Mirrored Gardens, We have never been disembodied, the intervention gestures to two works shown there, Open ego and Closed ego, which employ glass and obsidian spheres respectively. This visual similarity serves to forge a metaphorical link between the village intervention and the exhibition. Even so, the intervention’s raw and chaotic backdrop inverts the customarily restrained and unadorned environment of a museum or gallery space, while the urban setting contrasts the idyllic locale of the Mirrored Gardens campus.
SHIMURAbros are the filmmaking sibling duo Yuka and Kentaro Shimura. Their work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the National Arts Center, Tokyo; the National University of Singapore’s Centre for the Arts, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; The Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries in New York; the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; and Museums Quartier, Vienna.