Blue slides
Yuki Kimura
2026
Two rubber sandals, measuring cup, and instruction sheet in a custom-made shoe box
26 x 19 x 7.5 cm
The edition is divided between pairs of right shoes and pairs of left shoes, with each buyer randomly assigned one or the other
Edition of 12 copies numbered and signed by the artist, plus one artist’s proof and one publisher’s proof
Blue Slides consists of two identical sandals placed parallel to one another, toe to heel, each holding a small amount of water. As is often the case in Kimura’s work, ordinary found objects are here removed from their habitual use and surroundings, and placed in a situation where effects of repetition, reflection, and mirroring begin to unfold. One sandal seems to answer the other without ever quite corresponding to it, the regularity of their arrangement disturbed by the shifting and precarious presence of water. Through this displacement of expected symmetry, the pair gives rise to a form of floating wholeness. In the recognition of a scene at once familiar and strange, the work elicits a subtle disjunction between perception and memory.
