Kohei Nawa's Foam installation created a cloud-like landscape of soapy bubbles
Japanese artist Kohei Nawa filled a dark room with billowing clouds of foam for this art exhibition in Aichi, Japan (+ slideshow).
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Kohei Nawa used a mixture of detergent, glycerin and water to create the bubbly forms of his installation, entitled Foam.
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Described by the artist as being "like the landscape of a primordial planet", the large cloud-like forms were pumped up from the floor in eight different locations, creating a scene that was constantly in motion inside an otherwise black room.
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The artist experimented with different quantities of the three ingredients to create a foam stiff enough to hold a shape without being affected by gravity.
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"Small cells bubble up ceaselessly with the slight oscillations of a liquid," said Nawa, explaining the process. "The cells gather together, totally covering the liquid as they spontaneously form a foam, an organically structured conglomeration of cells."
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"The risen volumes of foam link together and reach saturation, but continue to swell, occasionally losing vitality and spreading out over the ground," he added.
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The exhibition was presented in Autumn 2013 as part of the Aichi Triennale, an art exhibition in Nagoya, Japan.
Photography is by Nobutada Omote.
![Design concept diagram one of Foam installation by Kohei Nawa](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/01/Foam-installation-by-Kohei-Nawa_dezeen_10.jpg)
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![Design concept diagram three of Foam installation by Kohei Nawa](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/01/Foam-installation-by-Kohei-Nawa_dezeen_12.jpg)