Walking down the hill in the South Aoyama district, you will find the gallery called “PLSMIS“, a gallery with a lounge space for drinks at late night. From June 5th to 13th, an exhibition “fluctuation of life” was held at PLSMIS, showcasing a series of glass works entitled as “Life” by a glass artist Mika Aoki.
Born and raised in Hokkaido, Mika Aoki moved to Tokyo to study at Musashino Art University. After graduated from the school, she has exhibited her glass pieces made with heat-resistant glass and laboratory instruments that represent her basic theme of “life”.
Going inside the gallery, visitors find a series of fragile glass pieces put into bottles. It seems like all the work stays in the quiet laboratory. Each glass piece looks like an organ, an animated life from the future space, or an atom. And these works are well fitted to be displayed in the gallery where sun light coming inside well.
The most important thing for her is to convey her message to everyone. For her, glass is one of the ways to make her creation as freely as possible. Like drawing with a pencil, she does Esquisse with glass. She keeps it again and again, and each “life” is completed.
Mika Aoki Exhibition “fluctuation of life”
Date: June 5th – 13th, 2010
Place: PLSMIS
http://www.plsmis.com
Text: Memi Mizukami, Mariko Takei
Photo: Kozaburo Sakamoto
