Kiichiro Adachi
Gauss
Kiichiro Adachi
2025
Mirror, plastic, etc.
7 x 7 x 8in.
Inverse
2025
Abyss
2025
Crescent
2025
Stellar Spire
2020
Mirror, steel, motor, styrofoam
11 x 11 x 55in
Stellar Spire
2021
Stellar Spire
2021
The mirror ball is a cosmological reflector, a projection of the stars onto the earthly plane.
To be ecstatically submerged in the swirling halo’s of light generated by Adachi’s spinning globes, is to have the realization:
I am in the universe; the universe is in me.
Kiichiro Adachi is a Japanese artist from Osaka, based in Brooklyn, New York. His sculptural works have been widely exhibited in Japan and internationally. His major solo exhibitions include All After Human(Harukaito by island, Tokyo, 2021), Big Dipper(Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, 2019), and cluster(AiB Gallery, Detroit, 2018). His works are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
“My work is created for a dialogue with nature. In Japan, where I was raised, an animistic worldview rooted in reverence for and coexistence with nature exists alongside a rationalist perspective shaped by modernization and science...I create devices that seek to explore its essence, and I pursue this through the following multifaceted projects...By using the mirror ball—an apparatus that symbolizes desire and indulgence—to imitate sacred and sublime natural phenomena, the work embodies the irony of humanity’s attempt to both fear and rationally simplify, and ultimately control, nature. Yet within this worldly, artificial object, one can also glimpse a sense of prayer, festivity, and a mysticism akin to silence”.
“Triple Warmer” Group Exhibition
Shoot the Lobster
Dec 18-31, 2025.
Installation shots by
@cherryhandforth