Mika Oki’s art installations are all smoke and mirrors, quite literally. Roiling clouds of fog are lit by prismatic lights, while images are variously reflected, distorted, and projected through frames, making doors become mirrors and mirrors become windows. They are more experiential than physical, serving to make reality oddly illusory. They are also a great introduction to IVM Trio, Oki’s band with fellow artist/producer Apulati Bien and percussionist Sébastien Forrester. The group’s debut album, Explain Yourselves, is similarly ungraspable — a moody set in which each track is structured more like a dream than a song.
Explain Yourselves shapeshifts in such surreal ways because of the push and pull of its constituent parts. The trio trades equally…

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