Mark Nakamura is a visual artist based in Vancouver. Through efficient and often humorous gestures, Nakamura interrupts pre-established codes of reading the images and objects that pervade daily life. He challenges his viewers’ perception by creating artworks that play with conflicting functional and conceptual values. For a work entitled, Temporarily Unavailable (MUMOK), Nakamura recreates the display for an artwork that was temporarily unavailable for viewing at a museum in Vienna, which includes a sign and wood support bar used to hang a painting. Nakamura plays on the tentative nature of how his artworks function. While they allude to something in progress, they are an end in and of themselves.