About

Maria Taniguchi tirelessly explores the possibilities of form via a strong investment of both time
and labour. Through this she has explored, almost unrestricted, various materials and objects
through forms as diverse as pottery and video.

For her first solo exhibition at Ibid. Gallery, eight large brick paintings appear as walls of an
impossible room: on the one hand, they are false surfaces of brick made only of pencil, mars black,
and water, outlined in pencil over stretched canvas; on the other, taken in its entirety, a persistent
diagram. To those familiar with Taniguchi's work, here the …