To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Asia Now, Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard presents Leaves, Cycles, a Trio Show by Korean artists and twin sisters Park Chae Dalle and Park Chae Biole, featuring Japanese ceramic artist Yoshimi Futamura.

Born in 1997 and working between France and Korea, the Park Chae twins practice painting, knitting, poetic writing, and sculpture, developing two unique artistic worlds with multiple resonances.

Curators of this exhibition project, Park Chae Dalle and Park Chae Biole chose to recreate the atmosphere of their childhood home in the booth, where their father introduced them to drawing and painting. Through the canvas and textile works of Park Chae Dalle’s Family and Hand to Hand series, and through the installations and paintings on bamboo blinds of Park Chae Biole, the two sisters create a new way of inhabiting space, with which they invite Yoshimi Futamura to enter into dialogue. The ceramics of the Black Hole and Rebirth series, created in response to the Fukushima disaster (2011), adorn this domestic space by questioning how our foundations can suddenly alter and rebuild.

At the origin of this project, alongside the relationship with the domestic, the notions of the natural cycle and recycling play a central role. Avoiding waste is a mantra that intimately connects Korean and Japanese cultures. While anti-waste and recycling practices are even present in homes, in the way we cook, for example, they also resonate with the three artists’ approach to their practices. Park Chae Dalle and Park Chae Biole also noted in an interview with Yoshimi Futamura, A Conversation with Clay, these words: “A grain of clay is like a grain of rice; it must not be wasted.”

In the Family series, Park Chae Dalle reuses old canvas paintings, layering them with sheets of hanji paper to create layered works that utilize the practice of upcycling. In Biole Park Chae’s Work, upcycling crystallizes in her new body of perforated bamboo blinds, the stems of which she reclaims to weave new circular supports for her landscape and travel paintings.

In the installation proposed by the two Korean artists, we are invited to move between the works arranged like floating shelters in the exhibition space. The cyclical movement of the stroll is reinforced by the reference to the natural cycle that emerges from the dialogue between the telluric ceramics of Yoshimi Futamura – unique alloys between porcelain and stoneware that question the resilience of matter and societies – and the aerial works of Park Chae Dalle and Park Chae Biole.