KOHEI NAWA

Ether

“Ether” is a sculpture made through 3D modelling a drop of highly viscous liquid in various stages, as it falls and hits the floor. The form is traced out of the elastic tendency of a liquid droplet, through studies of photographed droplets and observations of the poured liquid with a high viscosity. The obtained silhouette is rotated in 3D, mirrored vertically, and stacked in random sequences. Erected like an infinite column, the sculpture is designed to create a speculative state of weightlessness by the effects of opposite forces, i.e. gravity and counter-gravity.

Ether#12

2015
Mixed media
335 × 90 × 90 mm

Ether#25

2016
Mixed media
1272 × 178 × 178 mm

Ether#4

2014
Mixed media
835 × 90 × 90 mm

Ether

Installation view: mission [SPACE×ART]—beyond cosmologies, 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

Ether

2019
Aluminum and paint
10700 × 1780 × 1780 mm
Installation view: Grand Hyatt at SFO, San Francisco, US

Ether (Octagon)

2020
Mixed media
7350 × 1128 × 1128 mm
Installation view: ShinPuhKan, Kyoto, Japan
Collection of NTT Urban Development Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Ether#34 / Ether#35

2018
Aluminum and paint
4180 × 445 × 445 mm
Installation view: “FIAC Hors les Murs,” 2018, Tuileries Garden, Paris, France

Ether (Equality)

2023
Mixed media
25000 × 3514 × 3514 mm
Installation view: Seguin Island, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Courtesy of SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Pace Gallery