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Artist Statement
The Project of Butterfly Installation
A butterfly is the universal symbol of peace. We encounter the butterfly sipping nectar from a flower and taking off to the sky. The butterfly stretches its wings saturated with pollen to land onto another flower. This flower is fertilized by a visit of the butterfly. The journey of the butterfly feeds our imaginations in a form of gift-exchange. This peaceful movement of the butterfly is exercised in an interactive formation of this project.

An individual shape of the butterfly is painted with acrylic on each transparent surface of shower curtains. In the Butterfly Installation, the painted shower curtains can be rearranged through an act of layering, hanging, spreading, folding, and drawing in and out. Throughout the process of the rearrangements, the painted shower curtains are multi-layered. Various impressions of the butterfly are captured by audience participation. The audience find themselves playing a role of the butterfly flourishing with their hopes and dreams.

The Butterfly Installation comes in handy with flexible and reversible aspects of the vinyl material. The painted shower curtains constantly deal with vulnerability through the consuming structure of the project. Ethical dilemma of these "paintings" is ambivalent in the disposable culture. Therefore, the butterfly is a peacemaker that challenges a subtle beauty interwoven by the vulnerability in this project.
Biography
Hiromi Kiba was born in Japan and has been living and working in New York. She employs various media shifting through her recognitions in the daily reality. In between 2000 and 2002, her investigation had been the installation work that is activated by performing act in space. Such an interactive formation of the work had been exercised with public participation. She received a BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York, NY in 1995 and a MFA from The City College of New York/ CUNY in 2001. Her awards include Presidential Awards at SVA, 1992 and Therese McCabe Ralston Connor Awards at CCNY, 1999 and 2000. Her work has been exhibited at Theatre for the New City, Hereart, The Museum of Modern Art, Lunatarium (DUMBO), Exit Art, Ceres, Shelf Life, CCNY Compton Goethals Gallery, Hunter College Times Square Lobby Gallery, Visual Arts Gallery, and SVA Gallery. She has also demonstrated the artist project, "Let's Play with Chinese Characters" with Natsuko Fujiu for the community day event at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York, 2000.
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