Jacob Hashimoto — Giant Arc, SFMOMA (2026)

The work lets us consider an image as an environment: no viewpoint captures the whole. Repeating a modest element produces a bodily experience of scale.

Nuage de cerfs-volants en papier suspendus dans la galerie du SFMOMA.

Jacob Hashimoto — Giant Arc, SFMOMA (2026)

Nearly 75,000 small bamboo and Japanese-paper kites form a suspended landscape at SFMOMA. Colours and patterns gather and disperse, turning the gallery into a volume through which the eye travels.

The work lets us consider an image as an environment: no viewpoint captures the whole. Repeating a modest element produces a bodily experience of scale.

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Jacob Hashimoto / SFMOMA. Photo: Don Ross.