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The first fully site-responsive exhibition in the new ICA SF at The Cube, Midnight March will present Masako Miki’s work as never seen before in her largest presentation to date. The exhibition will collapse Miki’s two-dimensional and three-dimensional practices, bringing her paintings known as “Night Parades” to life in experiential form.

Visitors will descend from the upper level of the new ICA SF space to the lower level, encountering throngs of Miki’s signature felted character sculptures in a dramatically darkened environment. Here, we will be fully immersed in Miki’s world of riotous resistance. Dark indigo walls dotted with gold stars will echo the voids in her two-dimensional works, while theatrically lit characters will gather and disperse in complex relationships. Midnight March helps us understand deeper aspects of Miki’s “othered” figures and recognize difference as a positive force, even as we are unsettled by it.