Keita MORI「Bug report」
2020. 1.12(sun) ー 2020. 3.15(fri)Template, 2017, silk and cotton threads on photograph, 80 x 60 cm© ADAGP Keita Mori
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris.

rin art association is pleased to announce Bug report by Paris-based artist Keita Mori, the ﬁrst solo exhibition with the gallery. Following
his graduation from the Tama University of Art, Tokyo in 2004, he moved to France and has made a notable career in Paris andthroughout Europe. In 2020, he was selected as resident artist at the Foundation FIMINCO, one of the project bases for the ﬁrst
international art and cultural program under the “Grand Paris” government-led initiative, intended to expand and transform themetropolitan area.
Showcasing a comprehensive repertoire of Moriʼ s drawings, the exhibition includes recent works from his iconic thread-drawing series
Bug report, as well as Template̶a work that is composed by applying thread to close-up photographs of early modernist architecturebuilding details, accentuating their linear quality. Mori states: “threads perform like knots of the building materials when clothes werecompared to houses” . By saying so, he suggests how his drawing takes on architectural and three-dimensional characteristics. Walldrawings produced specially for this exhibition will construct a "hypothesis" (kasetsu 仮説 ) of the images, through acts of making
images without a draft, namely, blueprints for a "temporal structure" (kasetsu 仮設 ).
Artistʼ s Statement
In an attempt to expand the drawing's expressive property as a medium, I have developed my own unique production method of pasting
threads on papers and even directly on walls with a glue gun. These lines made by thread are physically even and the material iscalculative without nuance, unlike lines made with pencils and pens. Seeing these lines of threads as elements of "systems" and"societies", and reporting the cracks or bugs and transformations after pasting threads on the supporting medium, I seek for tentative
existence of the real.
Keita Mori
Born in Hokkaido in 1981, Japan. Mori moved to France after graduating from Tama University of Art, Tokyo in 2004, and studied atthe ENSBA (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris) in 2007 as a grantee of the Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming
Artists funded by the Agency for Cultural Aﬀairs, Japan. He received Master of Fine Arts in new media, University of Paris Ⅷ (Universityof Vincennes in Saint-Denis), France in 2011. Mori lives and works in Paris.
His solo exhibition Strings curated by Gaël Charbau was held in 2017 as the inaugural exhibition at the Drawing Lab, Paris̶the ﬁrst art
center specializing in contemporary drawings in France. His recent exhibitions include Walk The Line - New Paths in Drawing,
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; 20thDOMANI, The Art of Tomorrow, The National Art Center Tokyo; Art On Paper, Brussels
Contemporary Drawing Fair, BOZAR; Dissect the Society, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan; The Projective Drawing, curated by
Brett Littman, Drawing Lab, Paris; (MO)TION, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan; Templates, Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris.
Mori's works are collected by many private collectors and public institutions including FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux; FRAC PACA, Marseille.
In 2019, he was commissioned for 1 immeuble, 1 œuvreby by the French Ministry for Culture and Emerige endowment fund, Massy.
Recent grants and awards include DRAC Île-de-France grant in 2019; SHOEN endowment fund grantin 2017; received the PRIX Galeries
Lafayette, Montpellier both in 2016; and nominated for the PRIX Découverte - Palais de Tokyo in 2015.
Opening reception

1.12( 日） 18：00 - 20：00

Performance

1.12( 日） 18：30 -Mineki MURATA「ままならない手、そして、その家。
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