For immediate release

L21 Broadcasting from ParisÁlvaro Gil, Ben Edmunds, Geran Knol, Marc Badia, Mira Makai, Pixy Liao, Richard Woods, HannahHanski
12th January - 12th February, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, 12th January 2023, 6 - 9 pm

L21 broadcasting from Paris.
L21 and JPS Gallery are pleased to present this collaboration in which both galleries join forces
to curate the rst group exhibition of artists represented by the Spanish gallery L21 at JPS
Gallery in Paris.
During the tour through the two oors of the exhibition space, the spectator will witness thedialogue established between the works of the 8 artists that comprise the exhibition.

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Participating ArtistsÁlvaro GilÁlvaro Gil (Corella, 1986) has a degree in Fine Arts and a PhD from the University of theBasque Country. Gil's artistic process questions the separation between high and low culture.
His constructions are based on the concept of customization, tailor-made transformations
which from a “brick-layer” attitude achieve brilliant and unexpected results. His research islinked to the practice of DIY (Do It Yourself) and "non-consumption". He conceives objects thatthrough the incorporation of transformative casings acquire a new value, formally precious andconceptually critical. A processual and relational attitude that, through recycling and assembly,
achieves complex forms. Artifacts where the functional and the aesthetic meet in unexpectedconformity.
Since 2008 he has had several solo exhibitions in galleries such as Satélite in Querétaro, Mexico;
Louis 21 in Palma de Mallorca or Raquel Ponce in Madrid, as well as in institutions such as theGuggenheim Museum and Sala Rekalde in Bilbao or the Huarte Center in Navarra. It is worthmentioning his artistic interventions in the Mercado de la Ribera in Bilbao and in the Trengandínbeach in Noja. His work has been shown in international art fairs such as ARCO, Madrid,Material in Mexico DF or Cross Roads in London.

Ben Edmunds
Ben Edmunds (b.1994, Norwich, UK) lives and works in London. As an artist, his practice spanspainting and sculpture, and he is the director of Aspirational Equipment Ltd., an artist’s objects
company founded in 2019. He received a BA in Painting from Wimbledon College of Arts
(2016), and an MA in Painting from Royal College of Art (2018) where he was awarded the Hine
Prize for Painting.
His practice is deeply rooted in his background as a sailor and windsurfer, and his work focuseson the crossover between these adventure sports, luxury lifestyle pursuits and colour eldpainting. He is interested in the possibilities of abstraction as a transcendental experience,likening it to climbing a mountain or sailing in open water. He questions the assumed antiutilitarianism of painting, proposing the artwork as a form of equipment.
He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including “Almost Somewhere”,
Choi & Lager Gallery (Seoul, 2021); “It won’t last forever (or maybe it will)” at Tatjana Pieters
Gallery (Gent, 2021); “Where should I go from here?”, Kaikai Kiki Gallery (Tokyo, 2019); and“Something unknown is doing we don’t know what”, County Street (London, 2020).

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Geran Knol
Geran Knol is a multidisciplinary artist from the Netherlands, currently living and working inAntwerp, Belgium. His work consists of drawings, paintings, sound and sculptural work. He isalso involved in Park Pardon, a collaboration with Bloeme van Bon. He received a BA in
Illustration at ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Zwolle (the Netherlands) in 2012 and aMaster in Visual Arts at Sint Lucas in Antwerp (Belgium) in 2015.
His work is an ever evolving research on shape and form. In Knol’s image a recurrent gurebecomes part of its surroundings and doesn’t take on a personi cation. He often works in series
where he limits himself to certain rules of play. With those limitations he researches possible
variations which then lead to new ideas. For Knol a drawing carries a similar importance to apainting, and he often refers to previous work when working with a new medium. Even though
his practice generally takes a two-dimensional format, the haptic qualities of the materials arevery relevant in the making of a nal image.
His work has been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions such as “Lucky Charms”,
Ballroom Gallery (Brussels, 2022); “With A Silent Drum”, L21 (Palma de Mallorca, 2021);“Plaatjes & Praatjes”, Willem II Fabriek (Den Bosch, 2019); “AppointMENT”, MENT (Ljubljana,2019); “Unclear Clarity”, ABC Klubhuis (Antwerp, 2017); “Double Bubble”, Inuit (Bologna, 2015);“Illustrative”, Direktorenhaus (Berlin, 2015); and “The Considered Cabinet of DeliberateThoughts”, with Park Pardon (Antwerp, 2015). He has participated in the art fairs Art Antwerp(2022) and ARCOMadrid (2021).

Marc Badia
Marc Badia (1984) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, where hestudied a master’s degree in Artistic Production and Research, and is an exchange student at theHochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg). His work is mainly focused on thehermeneutics of images in a pictorial and installative practice, using humour and mystery as
tools of critique.
He has exhibited at Centro del Carmen de Valencia (Valencia), Espositivo Mad (Madrid), Galería
Fran Reus (Mallorca), La Capella (Barcelona), Fundación Arranz Bravo (Barcelona) and at Arco
Madrid with the L21 gallery (Mallorca). He has held residencies at the Free University of Tbilisi(Georgia), the DE Kaaij festival (Nijmegen, Holland) and Major 28 (Lleida).

fififi3/7Mira Makai
Mira Makai (b.1990, Budapest, Hungary) is an artist based in Budapest. Makai works acrossceramic, acrylic painting, and oil pastel drawings. Moving away from the world of organic
abstraction that previously characterized her works, she found a new home in a world of
hybrid-like, magni ed comic book miniatures intertwining of mythological and Pop culture
in uences.
Her works have been presented in several group exhibitions in museums and non-pro t
exhibition spaces like Hungarian National Museum, K ntslerhaus KM Graz, Collegium
Hungaricum Berlin, Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre (MODEM) Debrecen. She also
exhibited her creatures with art galleries in different cities of the European countries and art
fairs, Art+Text Budapest, Susan Boutwell Gallery M nich, and Galerie Droste in Berlin,
Viennacontemporary in Vienna. Her works can be seen in Esterhazy Private Collection and theJanus Pannonius Museum’s ceramic collection. An Esterhazy Art Award winner.

Pixy Liao
Pixy Liao is an artist born and raised in Shanghai, China who currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
She holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Memphis in 2008. Her work, althoughhighly personal, is often witty and humorous. Liao uses her photographs, videos and installations
to call into question stereotypical contemporary concepts such as the nature of “the couple,”“the artist,” and the “female experience.”
Liao is a recipient of the NYFA Fellowship in Photography, Santo Foundation Individual Artist
Awards, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival Madame Figaro Women Photographers Award,
En Foco’s New Works Fellowship and LensCulture Exposure Awards. She has been awarded
artist residencies at the University of Arts London, Pioneer Works, Light Work, Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council, Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Camera Club of NewYork.
Selected solo exhibitions include “Your Gaze Belongs to Me”, Fotogra ska, Tallinn, Estonia(2022); “Experimental Relationship (for your eyes only, or maybe mine, too)” VancouverInternational Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada (2020); “Two Heads”,
Stieglitz 19, Antwerp, Belgium (2020); "UNE RELATION EXPÉRIMENTALE", the Rencontres
d'Arles, Arles, France (2019). She has participated in group exhibition that took place at PTT
Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Fotomuseum Winterthur,Switzerland; SCOPE Hannover Biennial, Hannover, Germany amongst many others.

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Her work can be found in the collections Alexander Tutsek – Stiftung, Franklin Furnace Archive,Møllersamlingen (Møller collection), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Light Work, Syracuse, NY,
The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO.

Richard Woods
Richard Woods was born in Chester, England, in 1966 and graduated from the Slade School ofFine Art, London in 1990, where he trained as a sculptor. Woods is well known for hisarchitectural installations and re-surfacing of structures that propose an absurd twist on the cultof home improvement and DIY aesthetics. His works are characterised by cartoon-likedecorative surfaces, bold patterns and vibrant colours. Woods completed a major architecturalcommission in South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, designed aninterior for the Comme des Gar ons’ agship store in Osaka, orchestrated the mock Tudor
overhaul of a private residence in New York and transformed the interior of Cary Grant’s
former Hollywood residence for its new owner, Jeffrey Deitch. In 2003, his re-paving of acloistered courtyard was the centrepiece of The Henry Moore Foundation’s exhibition at the50th International Venice Biennale of Art.
Recent exhibitions and projects include Frieze Sculpture, London (2018, 2013); Chelsea Space,London (2017); Folkestone Triennial (2017); Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2016); Festival ofLove, Southbank Centre, London (2015); Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (2015); Albion Barn,Oxford (2015); Bloomberg Space, London (2012) and Victoria and Albert Museum, London(2009).
His works are held in major collections including the Saatchi Collection, London; Arts Council
England, London; Victoria and Albert Museum; London; British Museum, London and the Museumof Modern Art, New York.

Hannah Epstein (Hanski)
Hannah Epstein (Hanski) (b.1985) is Canadian artist. She holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon
University (2017) and a B.A in Folklore & Religious Studies from Memorial University (2009).
Raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Epstein was nursed by a Zenith television and a Latvian
grandmother. The sharp contrast between the saturated images on television and the tragic
retelling of family trauma, launched a lifetime obsession with popular forms of entertainment as
remedy and escape.

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Using a folkloric lens Epstein is devoted to highlighting the cultural negotiation
between bottom-up (folk-to-commodity) and top-down (institution-to-mashup) storytelling.
Having cultivated a visual vocabulary of cartoon and pop culture images that resonate witharchetypal gures of the collective unconscious, she uses the traditional east coast craft of rug
hooking, video, and video games to digest a self-induced barrage of media, creating oracularimages.
Her work has been shown at The Hammer Museum, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Textile
Museum of Canada, The Long Beach Museum of Art, The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles,
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and The Rooms in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

About JPS Gallery
Established in Hong Kong in 2014 and later in Japan, Paris and Barcelona, JPS Gallery is anindependent contemporary art gallery presenting works of emerging and established artists fromaround the world.
The gallery is founded with a passionate spirit that dedicates to the new digital age and theexploration of the world of ne art and pop culture. We aim to create an innovative environmentfor a new generation of artists and collectors, fostering a creative space for all. We focus on fun
and playful works of the era that spans across different mediums and disciplines, showcasing a
discerning selection of works that embody the aesthetics of today.
We are committed to supporting the culture and art scene in Asia and Europe, creating a vibrantlocal art community. The gallery regularly presents works of emerging artists in our gallery spacesin Tokyo and Hong Kong as well as international art fairs, giving them a platform to gain global
exposure, supporting young artists to launch their careers. JPS has also been an active contributor
to society and the local art scene by sponsoring various charity events and auctions.

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