- Houston Museum of Fine Arts
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By September 21, 2025
Immersive exhibitions in the art world today are often synonymous with popular aesthetic displays or technology-driven entertainment. However, the exhibition at AA Village offers something completely different. Here, the immersiveness of multi-sensory experiences and artworks that extend to the entire environment make the audience a more spiritual and meditative dimension.
AA Murakami is a duo of Alexander Groves and Azusa Murakami, a pioneer in what they call “ephemeral technology”, employing cutting-edge technology to create ephemeral contacts, with visitors directly contacting the screen or keyboard or keyboard without restrictions. In contrast to the infinite replication and storage that defines our digital age, their practices utilize natural transient materials such as smoke, bubbles and plasma to shape only in current moments of existence, requiring awareness of beauty’s vulnerability and impermanence. The “floating verb” rooted in Japanese philosophy and aesthetics unfolds as a sequence of immersive, sensory landscapes, and technology causes natural phenomena, opening up space for slow contemplation of their elusive beauty and mystery.
In this exhibition marking the debut of American institutions, AA Murakami is not only an act of the artist, but also as an impermanent orchestration, the experienced architect brings visitors back the most authentic and universal sense of awe and wonders that nature can still awaken, inviting it to have creative and generative connections with it.
