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Fruiting Bodies, a solo exhibition by Umico Niwa curated by Ruthie Natanzon, was on at American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings (AITF), Tucson, Arizona, running March 8 to May 8.
Featuring strangely anthropomorphic sculptures made of organic matter in AITF’s subterranean basement space, the show unpicks identity through the uncanny and absurd. As stated in the press release: “Niwa’s sculptures probe the facets from which we fashion our identities and corporeal selves, and by extension, how we as individuals compose a larger network of forms and relations.”**