Taiyo Kimura

Permanent Laughter

In Permanent Laughter, dozens of portable compasses are scattered under a sheet of acrylic board, which is in turn covered with what appear to be the diffuse remains of an unidentified skeleton. Often combining a sense of physical incongruity and visceral displeasure with touches of humor and cruelty, Taiyo Kimura utilizes conceptual approaches as a means of challenging preconceived ideas about social organization. His work frequently interrogates how we organize space and time through discretely measured units, and in parodying that obsessively precise ways that we mark our very existence – through instruments that direct our bodily movements or denote our sense of time – Kimura invites us to consider our relationship not just to devices but to our very sense of ontological being.