Maiko Minarai does not like to define or explain its work explicitly, Maiko likes to leave the door open for the observer to draw his own conclusions, and for this exhibition Maiko sends us a Haiku, a Japanese poem that inspired it and that in a way represents the essence of this project and so be able to direct the viewer in a direction with multitude of paths:

Koi koi to iedo hotaru ga tonde yuku

“Come, come”, I said, but the firefly flew away.

The Haikus usually hide in very few words many feelings and symbolism, they are an example of subtlety and austerity, although very difficult to translate. It is a poetic genre that captures the moment, a moment though seemingly insignificant full of meaning and beauty in symbiosis with the art of the Geisha. Maiko in “Smoke” is faithful to this concept of the minimum, the subtle and the delicate.

And as the expanding smoke, in constant movement, disappears and melts in the transience of the ticking of time.

Food for the eyes.