2023/10/25

Art Writer Helen Korpak Valourizes Ryoji Ikeda’s Existential Data Streams

“The names of various cancer variants and hereditary syndromes flutter across the screen as if from an invisible source, but a few minutes later it doesn’t matter anymore because the universe will end one day.”
– Art writer Helen Korpak, on the glib information deluge of Ryoji Ikeda’s data-verse 1. Lingering on the implications of the Japanese artist’s 2019 installation in a review of his Amos Rex solo show (Helsinki, FL), Korpak underscores how “sequencing and shifts in scale give the work a heightened emotional charge.”
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