ARCHIVED YOBITSUGI - Beyond Repair: Private View

Date
Saturday 29 October 2022
Time
2.30-4.30pm

Venue
White Conduit Projects
1 White Conduit Street
Islington
London N1 9EL

Booking Details
Free - Booking essential

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The Japan Society is delighted to invite members and friends to a private view of the group exhibition YOBITSUGI - Beyond Repair at White Conduit Projects, co-curated by Paul Carey-Kent and Yuki Miyake.

Yobitsugi is one of the techniques in kintsugi - the Japanese art of repairing broken objects, typically by using laquer mixed very visibly with powdered gold, silver or platinum. By combining a broken vessel with pieces from foreign objects, Yobitsugi brings new life and character to once broken pieces and makes the philosophy of kintsugi particularly clear. The purpose is to give a new ‘landscape’ and ‘life’ to a so-called ‘broken’ vessel by creatively incorporating many strands of its identity: the owner’s memories, the maker’s inspiration, the vessel’s personality, and the happenstances of history. The participating artists in this exhibition from Japan and Britain were invited to go ‘beyond repair’ to embrace and incorporate damage or error as the creative inspiration for their art.

Paul Carey-Kent is a freelance art writer and curator, and a member of the International Association of Art Critics. He is Visual Fine Arts Editor of Seisma Magazine, in which art meets science. He also writes regularly for Art Monthly, Frieze, STATE, Photomonitor and World of Interiors (UK) and Border Crossings (Canada). He has a weekly column online for FAD Magazine and a monthly interview online for Artlyst. Paul has curated some 35 shows, most recently ‘Girl meets Girl’ at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway and ‘Zim-Zum: The Folding World’ at Patrick Heide, London.

Yuki Miyake is a curator and gallery director at White Conduit Projects in Central London, which opened in November 2014. The gallery showcases Japanese artists alongside British and international artists in a programme of innovative exhibitions across a variety of media. Yuki has curated over 50 shows at her gallery as well as Obai-in, Daitoku-ji, Zuiun-an as part of Kyotographie in Kyoto and at an ITV building.

If you have any questions, please call the Japan Society office on 020 3075 1996 or email events@japansociety.org.uk.

Image: Livia Marin, Broken Things (c_a), 2022, Ceramics, Porcelain, 30 x 25 x 12 cm

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