NEW YORK.- Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery presents Yumi Kori – Shinkai, curated by Tania Duvergne, sound by Bernhard Gal. ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION is pleased to present shinkai, a site-specific installation by artist and architect Yumi Kori, curated by Tania Duvergne. Conceived in response to the distinct specificities of the Ise gallery, the installation transforms existing properties and characteristics to reveal an entirely new spatial experience. A hint at what awaits the viewer is revealed in the exhibition's title, shinkai - Japanese for "deep ocean" and the name of the world's deepest diving manned submersible vessel.

With shinkai, Kori confronts the Ise gallery's particular sense of finitude due mainly to its windowless, basement location. Her intervention evokes a dissolution of physical limitations, giving way to suggestions of what lies beyond the gallery walls. Viewers are presented with a mutli-sensory experience that disrupts assumed perceptions, offering in its place an alternate, infinite reality.

Yumi Kori is a Japanese-born artist and architect based in Tokyo and New York. She has realized site-specific art installations internationally in cities including Berlin, Tokyo, New York, Basel, and most recently S?o Paulo. Kori is President and Principal Architect of the architectural firm, studio MYU, in Tokyo and is the recipient of various awards for her work. She has lectured extensively and taught at both Yale and Columbia universities. For more information about Kori's work, please visit
http://www.yumikori.com

Tania Duvergne is an independent curator and art consultant based in New York and the tri-state area. She has curated exhibitions and produced publications for art organizations in New York, San Diego, and Washington, DC. She has likewise worked extensively in the public realm on projects including inSITE97, inSITE2000, New York's MTA Arts for Transit, and the Peekskill Project 2006.

This exhibition is part of the Ise Cultural Foundation's Program for Emerging Curators. Please contact Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery for further information.