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37 Dimensions

PACE Gallery, Los Angeles

June 27 — August 15, 2026

Known for her artistic investigations into human regulatory and relational structures—both internal and external—Tajima’s multifaceted practice incorporates technology and data as well as traditional techniques to probe the aesthetic and perceptual complexities of contemporary life. From her early installation and performance work to more recent explorations in painting and sculpture, Tajima has developed series over the past several years that stimulate sensorial and psychic responses while activating theoretical approaches. Her work is guided by her enduring engagement with issues of agency and control. The exhibition’s title, 37 Dimensions, refers to a recent development in quantum physics in which scientists demonstrated that a pulse of light can exist across 37 dimensions—far beyond the three-dimensional world through which we ordinarily perceive and make assumptions about reality. The same research has also shown that the state of a photon may be influenced non-locally across vast distances. Mirroring the enigmas of quantum states, the constellation of works in the exhibition explores the depths of human cognition, perception, and latent potential.

Anchoring 37 Dimensions, Tajima’s new series 24 Hour Cosmos extends the ethos of her 2024 sculpture Sense Object (January 1, 2023, United States), a portrait of national sentiment across a single day created by analyzing social media data and compressing it within a 5d memory crystal. Amassing text-based datasets of news events from around the world, each 24 Hour Cosmos work aggregates data from one day and translates it into material abstraction, encoding it into the surface of the work to create a portrait of the day in shimmering luminescence, like a measurement of changing light from a camera’s long exposure. The word “cosmos” refers to the universe or a complex, orderly system, and these works are also subtitled for the days they reference. These ethereal wall-mounted pieces have varying holographic surfaces, measuring interconnected global events and moods as prismatic color and shifting visibility and luminosity that respond to the viewer’s positioning.

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