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    In Conversation with Kenryou Gu and Pascal Beausse

Walk-by Shooting
In Conversation with Kenryou Gu and Pascal Beausse

4.13 Sat. 15:00—16:00

Sfera

[ENG / JP]
Free

Kenryou Gu, 15972 sampling, 2019

Please join Kenryou Gu and the exhibition curator Pascal Beausse for a discussion about the specific scopic regime produced by Gu’s practice in relation with his subject—the everyday (and night) life, the intensities and rhythms of the urban environment—and his technique: how to produce a cutting-edge portrait of a city at the digital age of photography?
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Kenryou Gu
Kenryou Gu was born in Kyoto in 1994 and raised in Shanghai. He graduated from the College of Contemporary Art and Photography at Kyoto University of Art and Design. While in university, he studied abroad at the National School of Photography in Arles, France. Gu is recipient of the “KG + Award 2018” grand prize as well as the “sanwacompany Art Award / Art in The House　2019” grand prize. Currently based in Tokyo, Gu uses photography expansively as a means to compress and transform the information accumulated in one’s physical sensations in urban spaces. By means of an original method through which different times and places are connected and reconstructed, Gu builds a cross section of the invisible informational stratum that forms scenery, guiding the gaze through the hidden context at the periphery of space. His major solo exhibitions in 2018 included “Utopia” GALLERY WATER (Tokyo) at TOKYOGRAPHIE 2018, “Wu-Mai” at Wacoal Study Hall Kyoto Gallery, and “Utopia” at the former Junpu Elementary School (Kyoto).
Pascal Beausse
An Art Critic and a Curator, Pascal Beausse is currently the Head of Photographic Collections at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) in Paris. He contributed to magazines and art journals such as Art Press, Critique d’art and Flash Art. He has published essays, articles, interviews and catalogues on the work of Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, Teresa Margolles, Allan Sekula, Bruno Serralongue, Cécile Hartmann and Wang Du, among others. Recent exhibitions curated by Pascal Beausse include Tadashi Ono/Tomomi Morita (Kyotographie, Kyoto, 2018), Vivre avec les bêtes (Gwinzegal, Guingamp, 2018), Hiroshima Art Document (Former Bank of Japan, Hiroshima, 2018), Y he aquí la luz (Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá, 2017), The Family of the Invisibles (Seoul Museum of Art, 2016), among others. Pascal Beausse was a resident at Villa Kujoyama in 2007.
Sfera
SferaBuilding, 17, Benzaitan-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, 605-0086
Subway Tozai Line “Sanjo Keihan” station / Keihan Line “Sanjo” / “Gion Shijo” station. 5 min on foot from exit 2 (Sanjo Keihan / Sanjo) / 9 (Gion Shijo)

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