24 February - 20 May 2017
ARTIST : KEITA MORI
Curator: Gaël Charbau
In the exhibition "Strings", implicit in her project, Keita Mori has chosen to cross the theme of migration. A subject with the roots of humanity, essential to the history that founded us, to the point of striking our contemporary imagination by its dramatic topicality.
Most of the artist's works are ephemeral works doomed to disappear. The parallel with the epic of migrants, beings on the move whose construction seems broken, crossed out, starting from a point from which they have been driven to draw broken lines in the geography they cross, is obvious. The exhibition is for the artist a moment of fixation of the imaginary, in the same way that life has become for migrants a succession of moments where the imagination seeks to fix itself.
From its final result, as it is revealed on the day of the opening, we can not guess anything beforehand, since the work is invented during the time of editing. Built from the threads of wool, silk, cotton, linen, nylon of some clothes that litter the floor, the figures that unfold on the walls of the Drawing Lab are a bit like the phantom archetypes of a collective imagination. We go through them as travelers would glide along a mental map: an entire universe that crosses flat.
Gaël Charbau, curator of the exhibition
Keita Mori, Bug report, 2013, Cotton thread on paper, 50 x 50 cm
© ADAGP Keita Mori, Photo Tagma Hiroki, Courtesy of the artist
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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2017 | 14H-18H
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PREVIEW WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2017 | 9H-11H
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Keita Mori
"In Keita Mori's works, it is often about architecture and built spaces. The artist has set recurring rules that allow him to create illusionistic spaces, often on the scale of a wall, only using stretched wires and glue dots. This extreme economy of means obliges him to synthesize his motifs and to geometrically constrain the forms that populate his compositions. It is then in the viewer's mind that the space is reconstructed, according to the multiple clues left by volumes and perspective.
Starting from this very classical image vocabulary, the artist manages to produce surprising landscape effects, mixing the aesthetics of 3D wire representations, engineering sketches or, why not, cubo-futurist drawings.
Most of the time created with black wire, his works evacuate shadows and polychromy, leaving only the fragile, temporary skeleton of the figures that compose them." Gaël Charbau
Keita Mori was born in 1981 in Hokkaido, Japan, he lives in Paris and works in Montreuil.
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