Mika Tajima’s Force Touch (Bracchium) and a selection of works from the artist’s Furniture Art series have been engaged for this site-specific installation at Three Star Books (Paris).

Mika Tajima’s recent works invoke technologies developed to control and affect bodies, both human and mechanic, wherein the tension created upon their respective encounters opens up the possibility to examine the elements of control technologies, and the ways in which they interact with our bodily senses.

For Force Touch (Bracchium), working in relation to the artist’s Meridian light works, Tajima utilizes hot tub jet nozzles that have been specifically placed to create a diagram delineating the flow of energy of the human body from the heart to the fingertips.
The installed jet nozzles serve as pressure points where energy would be released, seemingly connecting disparate parts of the body through invisible energy surges.

Here, the jet diagram fuses figuration with abstraction of the human in contemporary society, where the body is subjected to regimens that emphasise endurance, flexibility and performance through the partitioning of bodily space - where individual practices of freedom are intertwined with modes of domination.

Following “Force Touch (Bracchium)” Tajima presents a selection of three works from her “Furniture Art” series, “paintings” which are reverse spray painted acrylic frames wherein the atomized paint mist contained upon the transparent acrylic shell precipitates to form an opaque surface.

Each painting reflects the light and objects in the exhibition space while concealing itself from full visibility, appearing as gradients that glimpse the spaces beneath the surface. This series refers to Erik Satie’s musique d’ameublement (furniture music) - a series of infinitely repetitive compositions meant to serve as aural decor.