- Museum of Advantageous Arts, Houston
- Via September 21, 2025
Immersive exhibitions in right now’s artwork world are most frequently synonymous with pop-aesthetic shows or tech-driven leisure. A.A. Murakami’s exhibition, nevertheless, presents one thing altogether totally different. Right here, the immersivity of the multi-sensory expertise and the artworks that develop into total environments invite viewers right into a extra non secular and contemplative dimension.
A.A. Murakami—the Japan-based duo of Alexander Groves and Azusa Murakami—are pioneers of what they name “ephemeral tech,” using cutting-edge applied sciences to create fleeting encounters the place guests interact immediately with expertise, unmediated by screens or keyboards. In distinction to the infinite replication and storage that defines our digital age, their observe attracts on naturally transient supplies akin to smoke, bubbles and plasma to form moments that exist solely within the current, demanding a heightened consciousness of magnificence’s fragility and impermanence. Rooted in Japanese philosophy and aesthetics, “Floating Phrases” unfolds as a sequence of immersive, sensory landscapes the place expertise conjures pure phenomena, opening area for sluggish contemplation of their elusive magnificence and thriller.
On this exhibition marking their U.S. institutional debut, A.A. Murakami act not merely as artists however as orchestrators of impermanence, architects of expertise who deliver guests again to essentially the most real, common sense of awe and surprise that nature can nonetheless awaken, inviting a inventive and generative reference to it.
