A group exhibition of artists from New York and Tokyo"Inhabiting the Moment”~ The view from artists during the global pandemic ~Exhibition Date: September 22 to 27, 2020.
Gallery Hours: 11:00-19:00**Advanced ticket holder only after 16:30 for Artist Talk & Live Performance on
September 22, Close at 17:00 on the last day, September 27.
Free admission except 17:00 - 18:30 on September 22 for the event
Location: Galerie La, 1-9-8 Okuno Bld. #607, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061, Japan
Artist Talk & Live performance:
Tuesday (Holiday), September 22, 17:00 - 18:30, Bar open @16:00◼ Talk by Emi Eleonola, Arthur Huang, & Sonomi Kobayashi, Live by Emi Eleonola◼ Ticket: ¥2500 (1 drink included), from the second drink ¥500
◼ RSVP: email at info@salondela.com or Call 03-6228-6108 to Yoshimoto* Ticket sale starts on September 6 @ 12pm
* Limited to 12 people (RSVP only)* First come first served basis◼ We are planning to do live streaming of the talk & performance for people who can’t make itto the event. More info will be announced soon.

Curated by Sonomi Kobayashi
Participating Artists: Fanny Allié, Emi Eleonola, Arthur Huang, Sonomi Kobayashi
This exhibition will feature artworks from four artists with different backgrounds based inNew York and Tokyo, and will focus on artworks created around and during the global
pandemic.
In everyday life, artists pay attention to things that people may not normally pay muchattention to or even notice. Sometimes they express beauty in what they see andsometimes the problems in what they see. I chose these four artists because they arefrom different backgrounds and practice in different mediums to explore, question,
record, express, and focus on our everyday lives in the contemporary world. Artworks
will include fabric collages by Fanny Allié, daily photographs with short poems by Emi
Eleonola, drawings, collages, and sculptures by Arthur Huang, and alcohol ink paintings
by Sonomi Kobayashi. Emi Eleonola will also perform and read her poems during thelive event.
When I was planning this group exhibition last year, I was thinking about how artists inNew York and Tokyo perceive everyday lives and express their views in their artworks.
However, since the beginning of this year, people’s lives have changed drastically in theglobal pandemic. As a result, I have also shifted my focus to artworks created by theseartists as they continue to experience and observe the global pandemic in each city,and in particular, how they express and perceive everyday life as a result of ourchanged world.

In organizing this exhibition, I want to give visitors the opportunity to experience thevisions of the world from these four unique artists’ perspectives, and to give everyone achance to think about and compare their experiences. I hope the artists and visitors
alike find healing, encouragement, and understanding of our current situation throughthis exhibition.
-Sonomi Kobayashi
About artists
Fanny Allié uses found materials such as found fabric, fragments, and small objects that
she collects to create unstable, fragile and obscure structures and architectures toexplore the relationship between her characters and the space they inhabit. It is achoreography between bodies, gestures, structure elements, unidentified objects andhanging threads appearing within these places of passage.
These emotional landscapes are born from personal and collective experiences
creating a shared mythology of the spaces we inhabit daily; they blend and reveal thenegative version of the world we are familiar with.
Allié was born in France and currently lives and works in New York. She is currently a2020 Dieu Donné Workspace Resident. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale
Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, France in 2005. She has held solo exhibitions atvarious venues in the United States and Europe including Princeton University, Equity
Gallery, DOT Art, A.I.R Gallery, and the New York City Department of Parks &Recreation. She has also participated in various groups exhibitions at venues including
the NYU/Gallatin Gallery, Dorsky Gallery, Field Projects, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Dekalb
Gallery/Pratt Institute and The Bronx Museum. Her work has also been shown at Volta 12in Basel (2016) and Art Miami (2019) during Art Basel.
Emi Eleonola is a musician, music producer, music geisha, stage actress, and poet. Her
work incorporates daily photographs and short poems that were created during andaround the global pandemic. She will be performing and reading her poems duringthe "Inhabiting the Moment” exhibition.
Eleonola was born and lives in Tokyo. She learned classical and jazz piano from ayoung age. She debuted as a vocalist in the rock band called "Demi Semi Quaver” in1992 which released an album from "TEN23" in the United States. They toured the UnitedStates including SXSW in Austin and received the first place on the College Radio Indies
chart in California. In recent years, she has appeared in numerous events such as theFuji Rock Festival, works as solo artist and collaborates with many other musicians. Shealso released her solo album called “Party Piano Punk” in 2018.

Eleonola is also active as a music director. She has also provided music to UA, Seri
Ishikawa, and Hiroshi Mikami. As an actress in theaters and movies, she has been partof works by Yukio Ninagawa, Shuji Terayama, and many others. She is also active as awriter and has novelized the movie “Priscilla".
Arthur Huang’s studio practice is based on the everyday. Since 2012, he has been
making memory maps of his daily walks on a variety of medium to explore the everyday
memories of his movements. Since 2015, he has been making automatic-like drawings
during his daily commutes on public transportation. And most recently, he has been
making mixed media collages from remnants of everyday life such as flyers, envelopes,
and packaging. His current work uses these drawings to explore the relationshipbetween his everyday life and his unconscious memories.
From the United States, Huang currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan as an artist andmolecular biologist. In 2001, he earned a M.F.A. in Painting & Printmaking from theRhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited his work in the United States, Europe,and Japan including the Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Nakanojo Biennale, Gallery
Camellia, Jill d’Art Gallery, Hasu no hana, HAGISO, the Tokyo Art Book Fair, Spiral
Independent Creators Festival, the Setouchi Triennale 2013, Southern Exposure, Printed
Matter, neurotitan, and the Austin Museum of Art. He is also the director of the Tokyobased artist collective, Art Byte Critique, which was established in 2012.
Sonomi Kobayashi is interested in science, physics, stars, nature, and spirituality. Most of
her work is symbolic and abstract. They are based on images that she sees during her
meditation and some symbolic shapes that she finds attractive in nature and everyday
life. Working on artwork is also a meditation for her and being able to be in the present
moment.
She uses all kinds of mediums such as alcohol ink, oil paint, watercolor, and works withprintmaking, collages and creates large scale site-specific installation. For thisexhibition, she will exhibit her recent alcohol ink paintings that were created during thelock-down in New York City.
Born and raised in Japan, she currently lives and works in New York City. Active as anartist and curator, Kobayashi has co-curated several group exhibitions at venues suchas the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Ground Floor Gallery, The PIT LOFT gallery in
New York City. "Inhabiting the Moment” will be her first curated exhibition in Tokyo.
Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Japan, and Europe, including
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (NYC), Lesley Heller Workspace (NYC), Flinn Gallery(CT), 341 FSN Gallery (LA), Galerie ARTAe, (Leipzig Germany), The National Art Center(Tokyo), Galerie La (Tokyo, Japan). She also has participated in book fairs at MoMA
PS1, Printed Matter Inc, Kinokuniya Bookstore in New York City.

-Contact: Sonomi Kobayashi sonomiart@gmail.com
Exhibition Website: http://www.sonomikobayashi.com/curation.html
Gallery Website: https://salondela.com/
Gallery phone number: 03-6228-6108