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• Comment: Just making sure this is noted in the draft - I highly recommend you look at a good art article for ideas on how the form of the article should be. John Bauer (illustrator) has sections on his biography, career, exhibitions, collections, other works, self-reflection, legacy, and references to him in popular culture in that order. Olek (artist) has sections for their early life and career, philosophy, and selected works. Both articles are currently GA-status in the art category. I'd recommend reworking your draft using those as references to how it should be organized. Gommeh 🎮 00:49, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

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Japanese Art Studio

A.A.Murakami is an international artist duo formed by Azusa Murakami (born 1984, Japan) and (born 1983, United Kingdom), based between London and Tokyo. The duo creates immersive installations that combine art, nature, and technology, a practice they describe as “Ephemeral Tech”. Their works employ materials such as mist, bubbles, scent, plasma, and kinetic elements to explore themes of transience and impermanence.

A.A.Murakami has exhibited at institutions including the (solo exhibition Floating World, 2025), the in London (Silent Fall, 2022), the museum in Hong Kong (Floating World, 2024–2025), the in Tokyo (Moon Under Water), (Beyond the Horizon), and the in Paris (New Spring, 2025).

Artist Background and Practice

Azusa Murakami studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, while Alexander Groves studied fine art at the Ruskin School, University of Oxford. They met during postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art, London, where they founded the design collective Studio Swine ("Super Wide Interdisciplinary New Explorers") in 2011..^[1]

As Studio Swine, they produced conceptual design works that often incorporated sustainable materials and filmmaking, addressing environmental and social themes. Notable projects from this period include Hair Highway^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]} and Sea Chair^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]}, which were exhibited internationally and covered by independent design and art publications.

In 2020, they established A.A. Murakami as a separate platform for immersive, sensory art installations. While Studio Swine continues to focus on design and material exploration, A.A.Murakami centres on custom-built technology for their "Ephemeral Tech" practice^[14].

Artistic Practice

A.A.Murakami’s work draws on the Japanese aesthetic concept of mono no aware, which refers to an awareness of impermanence and the transient nature of things. Their installations employ materials such as fog, bubbles, scent, and plasma to create works that exist only for a limited duration.^{[15][1][16][17]}.

They describe their approach as “Ephemeral Tech,” a practice that diverges from conventional digital media such as screens and LEDs, instead using physical phenomena shaped by natural laws. Collaborating with engineers and scientists, they develop custom hardware to produce sensory effects—fog rings, scented bubbles, light‑activated plasma—that dissolve the boundary between technology and natural forces. ^[15][17]

Exhibitions

Exhibition	Venue	Location	Dates
Five Old Altars of Rare Bacteria[18]	Arts Centre Shenzhen	Shenzhen	November 2020
Spring Forest[19]	Hyundai Department Store	Seoul	March 2021
Between the Clouds[20]	Kunstpalast Museum	Düsseldorf	August 2021
A Thousand Layers of Stomach[21][22][23]	Pearl Lam Gallery	Hong Kong	November 2021
Silent Fall[24]	Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Garden	London	October 2022
Wavelength[25]	Beijing Times Art Museum	Beijing	July 2022
Flood	TANK	Shanghai	November 2022
Passage[26]	LG Art Centre	Seoul	Permanent Installation
Cloudwalkers[27][28]	Leeum Museum of Art	Seoul	September 2 – January 8, 2023
Space Symphony[29]	Paradise Art Space	Seoul	October 25 – March 26, 2023
Scenery of the Emptiness[30]	Asia Culture Center	Gwangju	December 23 - August 27, 2023
Passage of Ra[31]	Grand Palais Éphémère	Paris	February 24 - February 25, 2023
Under A Flowing Field[32]	Hyundai Motor Studio	Busan	April 6 - Oct 10, 2023
Metabolic Metropolis[25]	Shibuya Parco	Tokyo	May 5 - May 10, 2023
Between Two Worlds[33]	The Collectional Gallery	Dubai	March 2 - March 31 2024
The Passage of Ra[34][17]	The Miraikan	Tokyo	January 24 - September 2024
Floating World[35][36]	M+ Museum	Hong Kong	August 2024 - February 2025
The Cave[37][38] Beyond the Horizon[37][38]	Museo della Permanente Opposites United: Eclipse of Perceptions, presented with Kia Design and Zero	Milan	April 7 - April 13, 2025
Floating World[39][40]	Museum of Fine Arts Houston	Houston	May 4 - September 21, 2025
Floating World[41]	Copenhagen Contemporary	Copenhagen	June 20 - December 31, 2025

Selected Works

• Floating World – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (May–September 2025), the duo’s U.S. museum debut, featuring four sensory environments including Cell, Neon Sun, Beyond the Horizon, and Under a Flowing Field^[42].
• Floating World – M+ Museum, Hong Kong (August 2024 – February 2025), large‑scale bubble cloud and fog ring installations^[43].
• Passage of Ra – Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation), Tokyo (2024)^[44].
• Silent Fall – Royal Academy of Arts, London (2022)^[45]

Their works are held in permanent collections of institutions including MoMA (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), M+ (Hong Kong)^[40].

Floating World

Floating World comprises five individual installations and represents A.A.Murakami’s debut in the United States.^[39] The title references ukiyo, a genre of Japanese art from the Edo period (1603–1868) known for woodblock prints depicting “pictures of the floating world.”^[46] The exhibition, presented as an immersive environment, integrates elements from the duo’s earlier works. The exhibition, described by Bradley Bailey and Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao, curators of Asian art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the installations “push the boundaries of art and technology” and “evoke a touchstone of Japanese cultural history.”^[42]

The five installations—Cell, Neon Sun, Beyond the Horizon, Passage, and Under a Flowing Field—each examine distinct material approaches to themes of transience and perception.

• Cell consists of a sculptural garden made from aluminum and volcanic forms that reference the ocean floor.^[39] The porous structures draw from East Asian traditions such as Scholar's Rocks and Zen rock gardens.^[42] These forms engage with themes related to geological history, speculative futures,^[39] and the origins of human life on the sea floor.^[42]
• Neon Sun features plasma tubes filled with noble gases and energized by electromagnetic fields, producing glowing patterns that mimics the aurora borealis.^[42] The colors shift between green-blues and orange-reds.
• Beyond the Horizon presents bubbles that resemble clouds^[42]. Viewers may interact with the bubbles^[42]. The work examines the boundary between physical sensation and digital perception.^[39]
• Passage, created for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, is a tower equipped with eight fog cannons.^[42] These release white rings of fog that drift through a gallery illuminated in blue light.^[39]
• Under a Flowing Field features krypton-filled glass tubes that emit lines of light against a colored backdrop^[39]. The installation is accompanied by sounds resembling insects in a field.^[39] It explores themes of impermanence, rhythm, and the unpredictability of natural systems.^[39]

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