The artists assembles a dadaist-like bricolage of cheap electronic gadgets, building up a neon garden in a punkish circuit bending of digital leftovers.
Born 1975 in Hyogo, Tabaimo lives and works in Nagano. She graduated in 1999 from the Kyoto University of Arts and Design. Her graduation work, Japanese Kitchen, an animated video installation, gained first place in the 1999 Kirin Contemporary Award. In 2001, she was the youngest artist to enter the first Yokohama Triennale with Japanese Commuter Train. She has been involved in many international exhibitions and group exhibitions, including the 25th Bienal de São Paulo, the 2006 Biennale of Sydney, and the Venice Biennale 2007’s Italian pavilion. Tabaimo has gained recognition as a leading Japanese video installation artist. In 2006, she held a solo exhibition at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, and another solo exhibition in Paris at the Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. The current exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art is her first solo exhibition in a public Japanese museum.
上天下海、各分一半,是「海景」系列的50張作品中一成不變的構圖,這是初學攝影者最忌諱的構圖方式,而杉本博司巧妙地應用氣候與時間的關係,將作品中的天海一線,呈現得有時清楚、有時模糊;也能漸漸清楚,也能逐漸模糊,有白天的天與海,也有夜間的天與海,有時也能看起來非天非海,充分表現禪宗修行的三種境界,「見海是海,見海不是海,見海又是海」。1997年在維也納漢堡美術館舉辦「慾望與虛空:當代日本攝影」(Desire and Void, Contemporary Japanese Photography)展覽時,杉本博司曾經引用以下這一段話來詮釋他的作品。