Asia Now 10th edition
Du 18 octobre 2024 11:00
Au 20 octobre 2024 19:00
Au 20 octobre 2024 19:00
Monnaie de Paris ,
75006, Paris
France
ASIA NOW
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Asia NOW is celebrating its 10th Anniversary edition Ceremony.
17 - 20 oct.
La Monnaie de Paris
Preview Thursday 17 October (by invitation)
Asia NOW Paris Asian Art Fair returns to Monnaie de Paris during Paris art week October 17–20 to celebrate its tenth edition.
More than just an art fair, Asia NOW is both a curated platform with a selection of international galleries presenting artists from across Asia and its diaspora, and an ambitious public program curated by guest curators featuring commissioned site-specific installations, performances, conversations and artist workshops.
70 participating galleries
This edition features Statements presentations by new and returning galleries featuring solo or duo show by artists from 28 territories across Asia, from Central Asia to the Asia-Pacific region, including West, South, Southeast and East Asia.
Newcomers include Esther Schipper (Berlin / Paris / Seoul) Sabrina Amrani (Madrid), Carlier Gebauer (Berlin / Madrid), Zilberman (Istanbul/ Berlin/ Miami), WINDOW PROJECT (Tbilisi), Kaikai Kiki Gallery (Tokyo), Nao Masaki (Nagoya), Side 2 (Tokyo), Shrine Empire (Delhi), Lkham Gallery (Ulan Bator), to name a few.
Returning participants include Perrotin (Paris/Dubai/New York/Hong Kong/Seoul/Tokyo/ Shanghai), Galleria Continua (San Gimignano /Beijing /Habana /Roma/ Sao Paulo/ Paris/ Dubai), Yeo Workshop (Singapore), The Drawing Room (Manila), Nika Project Space (Dubai, Paris), Galerie Marguo (Paris), Mou Projects (Hong Kong), Gallery Bao (Paris).
However Asia is seen not only as a geography but also as a methodology, with a multi-centric approach that celebrates global Asias for their communal spirit and collective practices.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Asia NOW presents “Ceremony,” curated by the international curatorial collective Radicants, founded by Nicolas Bourriaud, the newly appointed Artistic Director of the Gwangju Biennale. An exhibition blending the sacred and the mundane from culinary rituals to the communal exuberance of festivals, throughout the entire site of Monnaie de Paris.
The commemoration of ancestral wisdom serves to question traditions and power dynamics. Rituals, while reinforcing social structures, also have the potential to transform them. The 22 artists invited by Radicants explore the unifying force of community rituals through diverse practices.
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, two major installations have been specially commissioned!
Britto Arts Trust, a collective of artists from Bangladesh that participated in Documenta 15 and at the 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, has been commissioned to present a site-specific installation which invites visitors into an ecological, social, and diasporic space shaped by the Bengali palan and pakghor. The palan, a traditional kitchen garden often tended by women and children, supports the pakghor, a family kitchen that also serves as a communal living room.
Sumayya Vally, founder and principal of Counterspace, will exhibit "Water in one hand and Fire in the other”. This site-specific installation, commissioned by Asia Now, is curated by Kathy Alliou in collaboration with the MTO Sufi Art and Culture Museum, which will program a series of daily performances activating the vessel according to its Sufi spirit. Bringing together elements of the cycle of life, water, soil and fire, it features fired and unfired clay jars as a circular space, where the temporal and the material merge during Sama ceremonies. Through the natural action of time, climate and human interactions, the installation dissolves, transforms and regenerates.
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