Yuko MOHRI’s (ACC 2014) installations and sculptures at The Artizon Museum use magnetism, electricity, air and dust, water and temperature to make visitors sensitive to forms latent in the currents and fluctuations of the spaces in which she exhibits. The title of this exhibition is On Physis. The word “Physis” is an ancient Greek term translated as “Nature” or “Essence.” It was used in what is known as Early Greek Philosophy in addressing the question of what the basic principle behind everything might be, a fundamental philosophical question today as well.

In this sense, “Physis” was the central concern of Early Greek Philosophy. The surviving fragments of that ancient philosophy were later collected under the title “On Nature” and used to represent philosophical interest in movement, ongoing motion: the birth, transformation, and disappearance of entities. Mohri’s work overlaps with their interest in ever-present fluid change.