{"id":12974,"date":"2026-03-09T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12974"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:09:02","slug":"yuko-mohri-falling-water-given-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/09\/yuko-mohri-falling-water-given-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuko Mohri, &#8216;Falling Water Given&#8217; at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tokyo-based artist <a href=\"https:\/\/mohrizm.net\">Yuko Mohri<\/a> was drawn to materials that would change or, as she puts it, be as unstable as people\u2019s lives were at the time.\u00a0 Her current sculpture, installation and painting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanyabonakdargallery.com\/exhibitions\/926-yuko-mohri-falling-water-given-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-new-york\/\">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery<\/a> 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.\u00a0 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 18<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3797px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/0323f528-7a13-30de-9410-c615bbd390d1.jpg\" alt=\"A small wooden table with fruit on the top and lights hanging underneath.\" width=\"3797\" height=\"4908\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuko Mohri, Decomposition, vintage table, speakers, lights, 3-channel audio generated by fruits, and 3 LED lights dimmed by fruits, 26 x 23 \u00bd x 24 inches, 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s lives were at the time.\u00a0 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/09\/yuko-mohri-falling-water-given-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yuko Mohri, &#8216;Falling Water Given&#8217; at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[11677,1480,680,10,4229,121,11676],"class_list":["post-12974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-decomposition","tag-fruit","tag-lights","tag-sculpture","tag-table","tag-tanya-bonakdar-gallery","tag-yuko-mohri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3ng","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12976,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974\/revisions\/12976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}