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Strings

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

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Keita Mori, Bug report, 2013
Fil de coton sur papier, 50 x 50 cm
© ADAGP Keita Mori
Photo. Tagma Hiroki
Courtesy de l'artiste
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 22ND, 2017 | 14H-18H
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PREVIEW WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22ND, 2017 | 9AM-11AM
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Portrait Keita Mori © Rebecca Fanuele

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 mind of the spectator that the space is reconstructed, according to the multiple clues left by the volumes and perspective.
Starting from this very classic vocabulary of the image, the artist manages to produce surprising landscape effects, mixing the aesthetics of 3D representations in wire, the engineer's sketch or why not, the cubo-futuristic drawings.
Most of the time created using black threads, his works evacuate shadows and polychromy, keeping only the fragile and 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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Portrait Gaël Charbau © Rebecca Fanuele

GAËL CHARBAU

Gaël Charbau is an independent art critic and curator. In 2003, he founded the journal Particules, which he edited until 2010.
He regularly organizes exhibitions in Europe and Asia and collaborates with various institutions and patrons: the Friche Belle de Mai, the Institut Français, the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, the Audi Talents Awards program, the Emerige group, the Ecole du Sud ...
Since 2014, he has been in charge of the visual arts program at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris, and in charge of the development of contemporary art for Universcience (Palais de la découverte and Cité des Sciences). It is developing, with the network of national schools of art of the south, the program Inventors of adventures which will propose during the year 2017 various events and exhibitions on the young contemporary scene in the south of the France.

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