Mika Tajima's 'Ulterior' at Galleria Francesca Minini

Mika Tajima's solo exhibition 'Ulterior' at Galleria Francesca Minini in Milan presents works that fuse craft and industrial processes. The series 'Pranayama' features Jacuzzi nozzles piercing carved wooden monoliths with anthropomorphic marks and biomorphic masks in wood or marble, arranged according to acupuncture meridians. The works evoke surrealist and modernist aesthetics while addressing contemporary control systems. Other series include 'Negative Entropy' with abstract weavings forming 'acoustic portraits' of invisible environments, and 'Art d'Ameublement'—sculptural paintings that subvert perception through the inside/outside dichotomy. Tajima, born in Los Angeles in 1975, identifies as a sculptor across her interdisciplinary practice.