TRANSCENDING THE COMMONPLACE : The theme selected for our 15th edition

It all started at a meeting with Kinuko Asano, director of the gallery Écho 119, and the decision to entrust her with the curatorship of an exhibition that brought together five Japanese artists for the 2024 edition.

Out of discussions with the artists, their proposals, and the omnipresence of the everyday in their work, this idea of Transcending the commonplace emerged, the theme of our 15th edition. Around that idea we assembled different bodies of work that are part of the “humanity of the moment,”[1] a concept that makes the artist an observer, a researcher. Read the article about the theme