Kohei Nawa, PixCell-Double Deer#7, from the PixCell series. Two taxidermied deer in identical poses, sliced and fused into one optical double (Nawa likens it to holding Ctrl+C), then sheathed entirely in transparent glass spheres. Each bead is a lens, a “pixel-cell” magnifying a patch of fur or antler, so the animal is present and dissolving at once: the body there underneath, the surface refusing to hold a single image. It stands on a round plinth in the brick-vaulted Arario basement.
Grows from
- Kohei Nawa - the seed this work grows from. The other side of his interest in matter, after the shifting solids-and-liquids of VESSEL: here the form is fixed but the surface scatters it into points of light.
First seen
- Arario Museum in Space · May 2022
Title confirmed against Arario Museum in Space’s own labeling (PixCell-Double Deer No.7); the museum doesn’t publish a year for #7, but #6 is dated 2012, so this sits around 2012-13.