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Artist Statement
The Project of Butterfly Installation
A butterfly is the universal symbol of peace. We encounter the butterfly sipping nectar from a flower and taking off to the sky. The butterfly stretches its wings saturated with pollen to land onto another flower. This flower is fertilized by a visit of the butterfly. The journey of the butterfly feeds our imaginations in a form of gift-exchange. This peaceful movement of the butterfly is exercised in an interactive formation of the project of the Butterfly Installation.

An individual shape of the butterfly is painted with acrylic on each transparent surface of shower curtains. In the Butterfly Installation, the painted shower curtains can be rearranged through an act of layering, hanging, spreading, folding, and drawing in and out. Throughout the process of the rearrangements, the painted shower curtains are multilayered. Various impressions of the butterfly are captured by audience participation. The audience find themselves playing a role of the butterfly flourishing with their hopes and dreams.

The Butterfly Installation comes in handy with flexible and reversible aspects of the material. The painted shower curtains constantly deal with vulnerability through the interactive formation of the project. Ethical dilemma of these "paintings" is ambivalent in the disposable culture. Therefore, the butterfly is a peacemaker that challenges a subtle beauty interwoven by the vulnerability in this project.


Biography
 
Japanese born artist, Hiromi Kiba has been living and working in New York for twelve years. She employs various media shifting through the progressive identification of her consciousness in daily reality. In recent years, her investigation has been the installation of work that activates in a performing sense of space. Such an interactive formation of the work has been exercised with public participation. She received a BFA from School of Visual Arts in 1995 and a MFA from The City College of New York/ CUNY in 2001. Her awards include Presidential Awards, 1992 and Therese McCabe Ralston Connor Awards, 1999 and 2000. Her work has been exhibited at Theatre for the New City, Hereart, The Museum of Modern Art, Lunatarium, Exit Art, Ceres, Shelf Life, Compton Goethals Gallery, Times Square Lobby Gallery, Visual Arts Gallery, and SVA Galleries. She has also completed a collaborative project with Natsuko Fujiu for the community day event at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 2000.


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