COHJU is pleased to join Art Collaboration Kyoto, an art fair which takes place at Kyoto International Conference Center from November 1st to the 3rd, 2024. In collaboration with guest gallery, Galerie Marguo in Paris, we present a mixed booth featuring six artists, Oh de Laval, Fawn Rogers, James Prapaithong, Mio Yamato, Fumika Tsuchitori, and Hal Matsuda.
Galerie Marguo
Founded in 2020 by Vanessa Guo and Jean-Mathieu Martini, Galerie Marguo is a contemporary art gallery located in Paris’ Marais district. An experiment in hybridity and contradictions, the Marguo project is a multifaceted engagement in the arts and hospitality situated across local, global, and digital contexts, guided by Guo and Martini’s belief in the inextricable relationship between art and life.
Centered upon emerging or early-career artists from around the world, Marguo runs a dynamic, annual program of rotating exhibitions in Paris alongside its production of off-site projects. Coupled with its publication line, Marguo Books, the gallery’s international presence and wide-reaching relationships have paved the way for exciting commercial and institutional opportunities for artists across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Oh de Laval
Oh de Laval, Polish - Thai artist lives and works in Paris, France. She earned a degree in sociology from the University of Warsaw in 2016 before moving to London to pursue painting. She is concerned with human behaviour: the decisions we make, why we make them and how we feel as a result. These decisions are windows into our very personalities. In this spirit, each of de Laval’s paintings acts as a window into her character, her pleasures and her imaginings.Among Oh de Laval’s varied inspirations are Francis Bacon’s hedonistic lifestyle, sociologist Émile Durkheim’s theory that deviance is necessary to a functioning, successful society, and her love for the French New Wave, Italian cinema, and Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Fawn Rogers
Fawn Rogers, born in Portland, Oregon in 1974, is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist. Through painting, photography, video, and sculptural installation, Rogers addresses the idea of power as the currency of human nature and the conflict with the natural world. In a geological epoch characterized by pandemic, climate crises, and rampant human rights abuses, Rogers dives into the seemingly contradictory forces at play within the heart of this time period where humanity has effected change we can no longer reverse. The work responds to the hard truths of living through the advanced stages of technological power amidst human brutality and indifference towards exploitation. Interested in social constructionism, Rogers' art recognizes a full range of existence, including violence, innocence, and invention.
James Prapaithong
James Prapaithong (b. 1996, Bangkok, Thailand) currently lives and works in London. He received his BA in painting from Wimbledon College of Arts and MA in painting at the Royal College of Art. He explores memory, isolation and longing through his filmic paintings which deliberately use the aspect ratio of the screen while often devoid of people. Resembling enlarged photographs of familiar yet distant places, and using high colour saturation with a particular attention to light, Prapaithong’s hazy, dream-like landscapes become vehicles to communicate the uncertainty of recall, the construction of memory, and the space between connection and estrangement. Particular elements like water, sky, and the stars, become vessels of yearning for Prapaithong - of which only light can define such potent visions and intimate emotions.
INFORMATION
Art Collaboration Kyoto
Booth: Gallery Collaborations / #GC06
Thu 31 October 2024 (Invitation only)
Fri 1 November 2024
Sat 2 November2024
Sun 3 November 2024
Venue: Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall
Address: Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan
