DELTA / KYOTOGRAPHIE Permanent Space | 1st Press Release | 2019.12.4 p.1/2

KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photo Festival will launch new project space

DELTA / KYOTOGRAPHIE Permanent Spacein KYOTO Demachi Masugata Shopping Arcade in Spring 2020.
KYOTOGRAPHIE is presented annually in Kyoto,is one of the few truly international artistic events
taking place in Japan.
KYOTOGRAPHIE will launch the"DELTA / KYOTOGRAPHIE Permanent Space"in Demachi Masugata Shopping Arcade in theSpring of 2020.
DELTA is combines a gallery/cafe and a boutiquehotel.
DELTA is created by Lucille Reyboz and Yusuke
Nakanishi, KYOTOGRAPHIE ʼ s co-founders andco-directors. This unique space is activated byKYOTOGRAPHIE in collaboration with various artists, designers, curators and institutions, creatinga space of discoveries.

DELTA is situated in an authentic neighborhoodof Kyoto, located between the North-east side ofKyotoʼs Imperial Palace and the beautiful world
heritage site, Shimogamo Shrine. The building sits
nearby the confluence of the Kamo and Takano
rivers in the area fondly referred to by Kyoto people as the 'Kamogawa Delta'.
DELTA will launch a variety of projects that create
interactions between the East & West, tradition &innovation, the underground & mainstream. These
interactions follow KYOTOGRAPHIEʼs intrinsic local and international vision.
Outline

DELTA / KYOTOGRAPHIE Permanent Space
Opening Date: 2020. 04. 18. Sat.
Press Preview: 2020. 04. 17. Fri.

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For DELTA's opening exhibition,Omar Victor Diop from Senegal
will exhibit new portrait series of people working
at the Demachi Masugata Shopping ArcadeArchitectKazuya Morita
1971 Born in Aichi pref. JAPAN1997 Master of Architecture, Kyoto University

Omar Victor Diop was born in Dakar in 1980. Since his early days, Diop developed

1997–2001 Worked as a traditional plasterer in Kyoto

an interest for Photography and Design, essentially as a means to capture the2000 Established Kazuya Morita Architecture Studiodiversity of modern African societies and lifestyles.

2007–2008 Worked at Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue Arquitetes (Barcelona)

He will exhibit new portrait series of people working at the Demachi Masugata

2011–2012 Visiting researcher at Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura

Shopping Arcade for DELTA's opening exhibition, this exhibition is a main program

Barcelonaof KYOTOGRAPHIE 2020.

Furniture Designer

Ousmane M’baye
Ousmane MʼBaye is a Senegalese craftman and designer who draws on therichness of his cultural heritage to re-invent cleverly contemporary furniture andobjects where aesthetic and practical combine.
Self-taught, he creates colored furniture, often geometric shapes, full of metallic
reflections and effects of matter.

© Omar Victor Diop, Courtesy of Magnin-A Gallery.

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