Praxis International Art is proud to present Manufacturing Flaws, New Works by Hisae Ikenaga (b. Mexico City, 1977).

 
Through installation, assemblage and collage, Hisae Ikenaga explores the possible physical anomalies developed in mass-produced objects and industrial materials. Fascinated with familiar objects like furniture, cars, planes and motorcycles, she examines, alters and combines them. Ikenaga recreates and changes the genetics of manufactured objects, alluding to risks of malformations—irony, absurdity and humor consistently play a key role in her works.  

The final works merge the concepts of industrial production and generic processes and operations with traditional crafts and more naturalistic actions. Isolated (2007) features islands carved into a white page phonebook, addressing solitude and lack of communication, and furniture is humanized after being distorted and restructured in Handicapped Chairs. Ikenaga rewrites common instructions of assembly, obtaining extraordinary new sculptural forms that unfold a more complex meaning.

Hisae Ikenaga was born in Mexico City in 1977, where she studied at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado ¨La Esmeralda”. She also has studied in Japan, (where her father is from) and in Spain, where she currently lives. This year she has been awarded with the “Generación 2008” prize from Obra Social Caja Madrid and she is also a recipient of two Jumex Collection Grants in Mexico.  Hisae Ikenaga has had solo exhibitions in Paris, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Kyoto and New York and has participated in several group exhibitions including Located Work, a project created in collaboration with Joseph Kosuth at Madrid’s Casa Encendida and Informed by Function at The Lehman College Art Gallery in New York.
 
Praxis was founded in 1977 and has since evolved into a leading contemporary Latin American art gallery. Starting in Buenos Aires, Praxis aimed to spread the richness of this diverse and dynamic culture throughout the world. The Praxis mission is to bring the compelling creativity and imagination of Latin American art forward to a worldwide audience in exhibitions throughout its network of galleries.