Tabaimo, "Dandan"

Dreamlike animations rendered with a delicacy that recalls Ukiyo-e prints are a mainstay for this Japanese artist, who is currently representing her country at the Venice Biennale. For this New York show, Tabaimo fills the gallery with three video installations previously shown in Japan. One depicts a watery world in which human bones and organs are transformed into flower blossoms; another shows an exploded diagram view of a typically tiny Japanese apartment A third shows giant blue-veined hands grappling with each other. Each suggests strange animistic forces at work beneath the facade of 21st-century life.