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Umico Niwa, Daphne Adorned Series: Dance (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Umico Niwa, Daphne Adorned Series: Untitled (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Umico Niwa, Daphne Adorned Series: Untitled (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Umico Niwa, Daphne Adorned Series: Untitled (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Umico Niwa, Daphne Adorned Series: Xerxes (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Umico Niwa, Daphne Adorned Series: Xerxes (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Umico Niwa, Daphne Adorned Series: Xerxes (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Umico Niwa, Daphne Adorned Series: Xerxes (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Umico Niwa, Dr. Star (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Umico Niwa, Keep on Truckin’ Hologram (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Umico Niwa, Medial epicondyle elongation surgery (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Umico Niwa, Opalite Workmhole (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.
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Unpicking identity through the uncanny & absurd with the strangely anthropomorphic sculptures of Umico Niwa

, 24 August 2020
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Umico Niwa, Daphne Adorned Series: Xerxes (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson.

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.”**

Umico Niwa’s Fruiting Bodies was on at Tucson’s American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, running March 8 to May 8, 2020.

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