
TABAIMO
Shinju Trail
2018
Single channel video installation with custom frame
14 1/2 x 54 1/4 in.
36.8 x 137.8 cm
Notes:
Running time: 4 min. 10 sec.
JCG9585.1
TABAIMO
Shinju Trail
2018
Single channel video installation with custom frame
14 1/2 x 54 1/4 in.
36.8 x 137.8 cm
Notes:
Running time: 4 min. 10 sec.
TABAIMO
Crow
2016
Single channel
Edition of 5
Photo: Kazuto Kakurai
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery
JCG9054.2
Tabaimo, Crow, 2016, Installation view
TABAIMO
Obscuring Moon
2016
Single channel
Edition of 5
Photo: Kazuto Kakurai
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery
JCG9480.1
TABAIMO
Obscuring Moon
2016
Single channel
Edition of 5
Photo: Kazuto Kakurai
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery
JCG9480.1
Tabaimo, Obscuring Moon, 2016, Installation view
TABAIMO
Two
2016
Single channel
Edition of 8
Photo: Kazuto Kakurai
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery
JCG9484.1
TABAIMO
Two
2016
Single channel
Edition of 8
Photo: Kazuto Kakurai
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery
JCG9484.1
TABAIMO,Two, 2016, Installation view
Tabaimo, Chirping, 2016, Installation view
TABAIMO
Chirping
2016
Two channel
Edition of 5
Photo: Kazuto Kakurai
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery
JCG9449.1
TABAIMO
Chirping
2016
Two channel
Edition of 5
Photo: Kazuto Kakurai
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery
JCG9449.1
TABAIMO
Flow-wer 08
2014
Ink, beeswax crayon, color pencil and pencil on Japanese paper
16 11/16 x 13 7/16 in.
42.4 x 34.1 cm
JCG7280
TABAIMO
Aitaisei-josei
2015
Single channel video installation with sculptural elements
6 min 35 sec
JCG7865.TBD
TABAIMO
Aitaisei-josei
2015
Single channel video installation with sculptural elements
6 min 35 sec
JCG7865.TBD
TABAIMO
Aitaisei-josei
2015
Single channel video installation with sculptural elements
6 min 35 sec
JCG7865.TBD
TABAIMO
Aitaisei-josei
2015
Single channel video installation with sculptural elements
6 min 35 sec
JCG7865.TBD
TABAIMO
"Teleco-soup"
2011
Installation view at 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (c) Tabaimo /
Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery
Photo: Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
"Teleco-soup"
2011
Installation view at 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery
Photo: Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
"Teleco-soup"
2011
Installation view at 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery
Photo: Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
"Teleco-soup"
2011
Installation view at 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery
Photo: Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
"Teleco-soup"
2011
Installation view at 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery
Photo: Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
"Teleco-soup"
2011
Installation view at 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery
Photo: Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
"Teleco-soup"
2011
Installation view at 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
"Teleco-soup"
2011
Installation view at 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery
Photo: Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
"Teleco-soup"
2011
Installation view at 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery
Photo: Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
“Teleco-soup”
Still image
2011
video installation
5’27” loop
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery
TABAIMO
“Teleco-soup”
Still image
2011
video installation
5’27” loop
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery
TABAIMO
“Teleco-soup”
Still image
2011
Video installation
5’27” loop
© Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery
TABAIMO
DanDAN
2009
Video Installation
Still image
4',31" loop
Edition of 5
JCG5305.1
TABAIMO
DanDAN
2009
Video Installation
Still image
4',31" loop
Edition of 5
JCG5305.1
TABAIMO
DanDAN
2009
Video Installation
Still image
4',31" loop
Edition of 5
JCG5305.2
TABAIMO
BLOW
2009
Video Installation still image
3', 42" loop
Edition of 3
TABAIMO
BLOW
2009
Video Installation still image
3', 42" loop
Edition of 3
TABAIMO
Yudangami
2009
Video Installation
4'13" loop
TABAIMO
Yudangami
2009
Video Installation
4'13" loop
TABAIMO
Yudangami
2009
Video Installation
4'13" loop
TABAIMO
Dolefullhouse
2007
Single channel video installation
6' 21" loop
JCG3703.4
TABAIMO
Dolefullhouse
2007
Single channel video installation
6' 21" loop
Installed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Photographer: Jason Wierzbicki
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
JCG3703.4
TABAIMO
Dolefullhouse
2007
Single channel video installation
6' 21" loop
Installed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Photographer: Jason Wierzbicki
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
JCG3703.4
TABAIMO
Public conVENience
2006
Video installation
Dimensions variable
6' 5" loop
Installed at James Cohan Gallery, New York
Photo: Jason Mandella
TABAIMO
Public conVENience
2006
Video installation
Dimensions variable
6' 5" loop
Installed at James Cohan Gallery, New York
Photo: Jason Mandella
TABAIMO
Public conVENience
2006
Video still from installation
Dimensions variable
6' 5" loop
TABAIMO
Public conVENience
2006
Video still from installation dimensions variable
6' 5" loop
TABAIMO
Guignorama
2006
Video installation
2' 36" loop
JCG5304.TBD
TABAIMO
Guignorama
2006
Video installation
2' 36" loop
JCG5304.TBD
TABAIMO
Guignorama (installation view)
2006
Video installation
2' 36" loop
Photo: Hirotaka Yonekura
JCG5304.TBD
TABAIMO
Haunted house
2003
Video installation
Approx. 4 min
Filmed by Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
Haunted house
2003
Video installation
Approx. 4 min
Filmed by Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
Haunted house
2003
Video installation
Approx. 4 min
Filmed by Ufer! Art Documentary
TABAIMO
Japanese Bathhouse
2000
3 Channel video installation with sound
177 X 377 X 205 in.
Edition of 3
JCG2242.3
TABAIMO
Hanabi-ra
2002
Single channel video animation
4' 24"
Edition of 8
JCG2243.3
“A lurking, gnawing sense of dread, a fear that all is not well with the world persists throughout Tabaimo’s work. Be it a cook using human ingredients, a turtle being flushed down a toilet or nerves running between the floors of a dollhouse, the imagery that makes up the artist’s animated videos is at once nightmarish and alluring,” says Ashley Rawlings in ArtAsiaPacific magazine. Using drawings and coloration that evoke the hand-made nature of traditional Japanese woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e) and combining them with sophisticated computer technology, Tabaimo’s animated installations offer a surreal, complex and sometimes disturbing vision of contemporary Japanese society.
Uwajima, Japan
“A lurking, gnawing sense of dread, a fear that all is not well with the world persists throughout Tabaimo’s work. Be it a cook using human ingredients, a turtle being flushed down a toilet or nerves running between the floors of a dollhouse, the imagery that makes up the artist’s animated videos is at once nightmarish and alluring,” says Ashley Rawlings in ArtAsiaPacific magazine. Using drawings and coloration that evoke the hand-made nature of traditional Japanese woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e) and combining them with sophisticated computer technology, Tabaimo’s animated installations offer a surreal, complex and sometimes disturbing vision of contemporary Japanese society.
In 2011, Tabaimo represented Japan at the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia with a work titled teleco-soup. A completely immersive environment, the installation played with the idea of an "inverted" soup, or the inversion of relations between water and sky, fluid and container, self and world. Coined by the artist, this phrase builds upon an intellectual tradition in Japan that grapples with the country's identity as an island state, or what in recent years has come to be known as the "Galapagos Syndrome," originally used to describe the incompatibility between Japanese technology and international markets but now applicable to multiple facets of Japanese society in the age of globalization.
Tabaimo (born 1975, Hyogo, Japan), represented Japan at the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2011) and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2017); Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA (2016); San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (2016); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, Sydney (2014); Tabaimo: Boundary Layer, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London (2010); TABAIMO: Danmen, Yokahama Museum of Art, Tokyo (traveled to the National Museum of Art, Osaka) (2009-10); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2009); Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2006); YOROYORON: Tabaimo, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2006). International group exhibitions include: the Yokohama Triennale (2001); the Sao Paolo Biennale (2002); the 15th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2006); and the 52nd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2007). Interdisciplinary collaboration is also a major part of Tabaimo’s artistic endeavor; she has provided the visual elements to performances with Ohad Naharin’s Batsheva Dance Company, choreographer Maki Morishita, architect Yuko Nagayama, and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Her work can be found in the collections of the National Museum of Art, Osaka; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; MUSAC, Spain; Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Asia Society Museum, New York, NY and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Tabaimo lives and works in Karuizawa, Japan.