4月13日〜5月12日 KYOTOGRAPHIE KG+ Participating Works EXHIBITION

〜〜〜The exhibition held at the attached gallery. Cafe Mizuumi opens at the same time.〜〜〜

Megumi Mochizuki / Shujiro Murayama Exhibition
A Brief History of Photography ― Paper, People, Towns, and Trees

monade contemporary｜単子現代
April 13 (Sat) – May 12 (Sun), 2024 | Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 14:00 –19:00
Opening reception: April 13, Sat, 7-9pm
B1F Yasaka Bldg, 10-2 Tsukimi-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, 605-0829
*In cooperation with Café Mizuumi.

〈Exhibition Information〉
monade contemporary | 単子現代is pleased to present ” A Brief History of Photography ― Paper, People, Towns, and Trees” by Megumi Mochizuki and Shujiro Murayama in collaboration with KG+.

Towns have become people’s memories through being drawn by human hands, inscribed on paper born of wood, and left as photographs. The exhibition sheds light on the unique expressive techniques of Megumi Mochizuki and Shujiro Murayama, and approaches the history of photography along with various media and methodologies such as painting, photography, and paper-cutting.

Focusing on flowers, birds, wind, and the moon, plants, and mythologies, Megumi Mochizuki seeks to approach the existence and atmosphere through the PCPG (papercutting photogram) technique that combines paper cut-outs and photograms with the texture of handmade washi paper.

Working with plants, people, and communities in various locations, Shujiro Murayama, investigates his own technique “Ryokuga” (Green Painting) to draw and paint with the colors that raw plants themselves contain the world-living by using his bare hands on the paper and the wall.

How can a history of photography appear in between the paper cutting photogram PCPG and raw plants painting Ryokuga? Let us participate in the very source of photographic expression reexamined from the perspective of human historical perspective.

〈Artist〉
Megumi Mochizuki
Paper-cutting artist. She studies the tangible and intangible historical heritage of Kyoto and other cities, and recreates the spirit of that heritage in her contemporary works. She is also interested in materials and has been researching traditional paper producing areas in Japan and abroad. A member of the Swiss paper cutting society.
https://www.mochime.com/

Shujiro Murayama
Born in Tokyo. Completion of Mural painting at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (Doctor, Art). He has been creating artworks, organizing social and community activities, and conducting workshops in various areas. (Associate Professor, Akita Public Arts College from April 2018 to the present)
https://www.shujiro-m.net/

*Partner KG＋ https://kgplus.kyotographie.jp/