Imaginary Japans



9
October
18
75012 , PARIS
Informations
Opening hours: Weekdays from 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM
“Imaginary Japans”
For this exhibition, Sophie Hanagarth, Brune Boyer, and Graziella Antonini come together to share their respective visions of Japan. Following their stay in Japan, they will share the imagery that this country evokes in each of them. Sophie Hanagarth and Brune Boyer are both engaged in technical processes that generate forms and symbols; Graziella Antonini, meanwhile, captures images that bear witness to the coexistence of two worlds that intertwine and influence one another. For this exhibition, they will bring together jewelry, objects, and images from their journey to exchange perspectives on this country where mastery and letting go intertwine. They present an installation that connects their experiments, reflections of their significant discoveries within Japanese culture—past and present, popular or more scholarly. In this way, they aim to construct a narrative that reflects their vision of the “ah! side of things”.
Artists
Graziella Antonini (CH) is a photographer and visual artist. She holds a degree in photography from the ESAA in Vevey, a degree from the ENSA in Paris-Cergy, and a degree in Mycology—Practical Approach to Macromycetes—from the University of Lille.
Graziella Antonini seeks to highlight the feeling of being elsewhere, where reality no longer differs from illusion and where deceptive appearances awaken our desire for the imaginary. For her, photography is about being physically present in one place while being elsewhere in thought. Whether real or fictional, journeys—like memories and dreams—blend together to form a universe of multiple geographies, where different worlds intersect.
Brune Boyer is a jewelry artist and visual artist. Since 1990, she has participated in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad. Her creations are featured in the collections of UCAD, Fnac, the Danner Foundation in Munich, and the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. Brune Boyer is the author of a doctoral thesis in anthropology titled La fabrique du bijou contemporain, ethnographie d’ateliers.
Brune Boyer is deeply attuned to the world around her and its concerns. Her latest research has focused on the desire to share sensations; her jewelry encourages a slower pace by offering a moment of pause. In this way, her pieces are also invitations to take care of oneself.
Sophie Hanagarth (CH) is a Paris-based jewelry artist and visual artist who has taught at the jewelry workshop of the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) in Strasbourg since 2002. Sophie Hanagarth creates a repertoire of ambiguous objects in which the shaping of materials and their relationship to the body raise questions about the nature of jewelry as an accessory. The originality of her work lies in an approach that is both sensual and subversive, expressed through metalworking techniques.























