Japanese artist Yuko Mohri's site-responsive installation of ordinary objects and unstable elements exploring flux and repair at The Curve, Barbican.
Yuko Mohri has taken over The Curve at the Barbican Centre with In Concert, a site-responsive commission that runs from Thursday 1 October through to Sunday 24 January. It's a long one, so there's plenty of time to catch it if you're around the city over the winter.
Mohri is a Japanese artist whose work sits somewhere between DIY aesthetics, surrealist assemblage and experimental music. She's known for combining ordinary objects — umbrellas, feather dusters, apples, xylophones — with what she calls 'unstable elements' like magnetism, humidity, air, water and gravity. In Concert does exactly that, and it's built around states of flux and acts of repair. The installation responds to the gallery's own atmospheric conditions, working through entropy, transience and renewal. It brings together new iterations of her ongoing Decomposition and Moré Moré (Leaky) series, the latter an homage to the improvised repairs made by Tokyo's subway staff. The title itself plays on the Latin consertare, meaning to mend, bind or fasten together.
The whole thing grew out of an intermittent residency at the Barbican that started back in May, and it was shaped by the proximity of the Concert Hall to The Curve. It also marks the 20th year the venue has commissioned artists for the space, which has been a cornerstone of its Visual Arts programme since 2006.
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Practically, you'll find it in The Curve, Level G, at the bottom of the Silk Street entrance ramp. Entry is free, and it runs until 24 January, so you can drop in whenever suits.
