Statics of an Egg

David Zwirner is pleased to present Statics of an Egg, an exhibition bringing together a selection of multimedia work by a group of Japanese-born artists, along with contributions from an earlier generation of pioneering artists whose practices have influenced and inspired these contemporary figures. Curated by Martin Germann, the exhibition will feature new and recent work by Ryoko Aoki, Masaya Chiba, Miho Dohi, Daisuke Fukunaga, Kenji Ide, Soshiro Matsubara, Yu Nishimura, Hikari Ono, Reina Sugihara, and Masanori Tomita. Interspersed throughout the presentation will be works spanning the 1950s to the 1990s by Koji Enokura, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Fujiko Nakaya, and Isamu Wakabayashi.

Titled after a 1973 film by Nakaya, a trailblazing figure in video art, Statics of an Egg will feature a network of artistic peers—gathered by Nishimura and Ide in collaboration with Germann—who all share a deep-seated commitment to the exploration of material and formal realms where ideas condensate, structures unfold, and perception expands into liminal and uncharted territory. In the works on view, influence operates less as a linear narrative than as a form of attraction—a gravitational pull that engenders a shared attentiveness to how things fall, accumulate, resist, and decay, thus allowing for an open-ended exploration of atmosphere and materiality.