During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tokyo-based artist Yuko Mohri was drawn to materials that would change or, as she puts it, be as unstable as people’s lives were at the time. Her current sculpture, installation and painting at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Chelsea continue to explore the creative possibilities of impermanence in surprising ways; in this sculpture, electrodes attached to the fruits on the table measure changing moisture levels that are translated into data that cause the hanging lightbulbs to turn on and off. In other works, the decomposing fruits create sounds that echo though the gallery and remind viewers of forces (decay, sound) that are invisible but active. (On view in Chelsea through April 18th).
