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Pa.LaC.E "Azumi & Iori"

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  • ExhibitionExhibition

Residence artist, Pa.LaC.E's (Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds) exhibition

Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds (Pa.LaC.E) an artist collaboration based between Basel and London, who are visiting Japan as Artists in Residence at Kyoto Art Center will present the results of their research and creation before leaving Japan.

The exhibition “Azumi & Iori” (2022) centres around a family home in a remote forest outside Kyoto. In the house lives a mother, their two daughters Azumi and Iori and their grandmother.

Each of the family members is undertaking an obscure, obsessive ritual: Mama pockets a material from work, Azumi and Iori systematically collect and order residue from the city, Grandma weaves an endless loop of hair. The identity of the family is formed by the obscurity and relentlessness of their rituals and amassed as a centrepiece in the altar of their home.
Date / Term
September 10, 2022 [Sat.] - September 18, 2022 [Sun.]
10:00 - 20:00
Venue
Kyoto Art Center Kyoto Art Center, Japanese-style Room “Meirin”
Cast
Azumi |Suku Matsumoto
Iori |Sorami Tsuchiya
Mama |Shie Minamino
Grandma|Tsurue Nakanishi
Team
Cinematographer |Nao Kureya
Production Assistants|Yukina Yagi, Keisuke Nakaya
Production Support |Narihiro Matsumoto, Shiho Tsuchiya

Pa.LaC.E

Pa.LaC.E is a collaboration between Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds. Their work has been shown at ICA (UK), Van Abbemuseum (NL), Venice Biennale of Architecture (IT), Oslo Triennale of Architecture (NO), the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (ES) among others. In 2020 they were principal residents at La Becque Artists Residency (CH). Previously they have been residents at the Jan van Eyck Academie (NL), OMI New York (US), the Andreas Zeust Library (CH) and elsewhere. They are recipients of the 50th annual Shinkenchiku Award, Tokyo (JP).
Valle Medina is a former Geisendorf fellow at the ETH Zurich D-ARCH, where she graduated summa cum laude from its Laboratory for Applied Virtuality, and is a recent fellow of the Danish Arts Foundation. Benjamin Reynolds received a diploma with honours from the Architectural Association, London. They direct an advanced research studio “High Holdings” at the Royal College of Arts in London.

https://palace.studio/

Contact

TEL 075-213-1000

Admission

Free

Supported by

the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan, Fiscal Year 2022

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