reviews

  • Akira Yamaguchi, Unforgettable Electric Poles, 2012, 
mixed media. Installation view.

    Akira Yamaguchi, Unforgettable Electric Poles, 2012,
    mixed media. Installation view.

    Akira Yamaguchi

    Maison Hermès 8th Floor Le Forum

    Visitors to Akira Yamaguchi’s recent show might not have noticed at first that five columns inside the gallery had been turned into a row of towering electric poles; the mock fixtures—transformer box, power lines, conductors, and so on—camouflage the upper half of each column so convincingly that the objects making up Unforgettable Electric Poles (all works 2012) seem quite real. Yet there was an estranging effect, as in a daydream: The tall glass wall surrounding the gallery emphasized that this was an interior space, underlining the displaced status of the poles. Abundant

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