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Everyday Enchantment
Chanel Nexus Hall
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Bianca Bondi, Muku Kobayashi, Umico Niwa
The Chanel Nexus Hall, which marks the 20th anniversary of its opening in 2024, has welcomed the director of the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Philip Tinari as a new advisor and has commenced work on new initiatives toward becoming a crucial platform for cross-cultural exchange, dialogue, and artistic collaboration.
Commencing on October 19 will be a new series of exhibitions in collaboration with the Hasegawa Lab, an incubator for the next generation of curatorial voices led by Yuko Hasegawa (Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Honorary Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts). This collaboration, which is also a challenge to find out what kind of perspectives art can offer to people in the present world, will employ early-career curators from the Hasegawa Lab and aim to produce dialogs among a range of talented individuals who will lead the way in the next generation. Encounters with the ideas for new formulas on display in this exhibition may serve as an opportunity for the people who view them to discover a new way of looking at things, new lifestyles, and new aesthetics.
"Everyday Enchantment" will feature works from the three artists Bianca Bondi, Muku Kobayashi, and Umico Niwa, who are respectively based in France, Japan, and the US. Under the artistic direction of Yuko Hasegawa, the first edition of the series will be curated by Tetsumi Kayama and Finn Ryan of the Hasegawa Lab.
In daily life today, where everything is informational and digitalized, the space for mystery and the unknown that can stir the imagination seems to narrow. Through this exhibition, the audience is invited to rediscover the magic hidden in the everyday. Microscopic lives of moss and crystal are given shape in Bondi's mystic tapestries, Kobayashi reassembles ordinary objects as those that dance with vibrant spirit, and Niwa's tender, fey creations intertwine with her personal story weaving a narrative of eco-feminism. They cohabit in a contemporary creation myth, with agency, distinctive character, and hopefulness.
As we navigate through this space, we reencounter our ability to recognize the beauty of all, blurring the boundaries between human and non-human, organic and synthetic, offering a vision of a future where all beings harmoniously coexist in a transformative symbiosis.
Commencing on October 19 will be a new series of exhibitions in collaboration with the Hasegawa Lab, an incubator for the next generation of curatorial voices led by Yuko Hasegawa (Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Honorary Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts). This collaboration, which is also a challenge to find out what kind of perspectives art can offer to people in the present world, will employ early-career curators from the Hasegawa Lab and aim to produce dialogs among a range of talented individuals who will lead the way in the next generation. Encounters with the ideas for new formulas on display in this exhibition may serve as an opportunity for the people who view them to discover a new way of looking at things, new lifestyles, and new aesthetics.
"Everyday Enchantment" will feature works from the three artists Bianca Bondi, Muku Kobayashi, and Umico Niwa, who are respectively based in France, Japan, and the US. Under the artistic direction of Yuko Hasegawa, the first edition of the series will be curated by Tetsumi Kayama and Finn Ryan of the Hasegawa Lab.
In daily life today, where everything is informational and digitalized, the space for mystery and the unknown that can stir the imagination seems to narrow. Through this exhibition, the audience is invited to rediscover the magic hidden in the everyday. Microscopic lives of moss and crystal are given shape in Bondi's mystic tapestries, Kobayashi reassembles ordinary objects as those that dance with vibrant spirit, and Niwa's tender, fey creations intertwine with her personal story weaving a narrative of eco-feminism. They cohabit in a contemporary creation myth, with agency, distinctive character, and hopefulness.
As we navigate through this space, we reencounter our ability to recognize the beauty of all, blurring the boundaries between human and non-human, organic and synthetic, offering a vision of a future where all beings harmoniously coexist in a transformative symbiosis.
Schedule | Oct 19 (Sat) 2024-Dec 8 (Sun) 2024 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://nexushall.chanel.com/en/program/2024/everydayenchantment/ | ||||
| Venue | Chanel Nexus Hall | ||||
| Location | 4F Chanel Ginza Bldg., 3-5-3 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit A13 at Ginza Station on the Ginza line, 1 minute walk from exit 5 at Ginza-itchome Station on the Yurakucho line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6386-3071 | ||||
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