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 an artwork entitled, Temporarily Unavailable (MUMOK), Nakamura recreates the display for a painting that was temporarily unavailable for viewing at Museum Moderner Kunst, 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.