Suspended in Clear Depths
When you look into one of Yohei Chimura’s glass works, you’ll see specks of silver suspended in their clear depths: grains of tin sealed inside the glass while both were still molten. The glass itself looks caught mid-movement, its surface rippling and breaking off as though it cooled in an instant.
Sealing tin inside glass usually isn’t possible, since two materials that cool at different rates tend to crack apart. In his series The Experiment on the Origin, Chimura works right at that breaking point, letting gravity, heat and spin pull the metal through the glass in unpredictable ways.
The exhibition also wraps the entire gallery in a skin of transparent vinyl, another material reshaped by heat, turning the whole room into one continuous piece about how matter meets, responds and settles.
