Forest Inc., an exhibition by Yuken Teruya. Born in Okinawa, Japan in 1973, Yuken Teruya received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2001. His work is currently included in Greater New York 2005 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and will be shown this fall at the Yokohama International Triennial. Recent exhibitions include the Kunstwerein Wiesbaden in Germany; The Fuchu Biennale at the Fuchu Art Museum in Tokyo, as well as various gallery exhibitions in the US, Europe and Japan.

Forest Inc. is a sculptural installation made of paper bags from fast food chains, commercial shopping bags and discarded toilet paper rolls. In this exhibition, Yuken Teruya continues his exploration of our global throwaway culture. His sculptures trace the link from nature to consumerism by returning discarded trees back to the forest. In each paper bag the shape of a tree is created without adding or removing anything, just by cutting out and folding the paper from the bag itself. Each intricate tree is based on the image of an existing one.