ASIA NOW 2025
Monnaie de Paris
Cour d’honneur, Stand H08
Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard presents the second chapter of the Trio Show, featuring Korean artists and twin sisters Park Chae and Japanese ceramicist Yoshimi Futamura.
Under the title Wrapping Home, the booth offers a sensitive dialogue between two emblematic Asian traditions that evoke notions of departure, displacement, and renewal: the bojagi (Korea) and the furoshiki (Japan). Inherited from everyday gestures and steeped in symbolism, these fabric squares—traditionally used to wrap precious objects before a journey, an offering, or a move—become, in this context, the raw material for contemporary creation and exhibition scenography. Through a collection of works blending painting, textile installations, and telluric sculptures, the three artists reinterpret these gestures at the intersection of ritual and care, exploring themes of transmission, transformation, and the creation of a home.
Wrapping Home extends the critically acclaimed exhibition by Biole and Dalle Park Chae held at the Château de la Borie (Limousin) this summer. A collaborative installation by the sisters is also featured at the Piaget apartment on Place Vendôme, curated by Asia Now alongside works by Lee Ufan, Tadashi Kawamata, and Rithika Merchant—an installation on view during Paris Art Week.
For her part, Yoshimi Futamura will engage in a conversation with Pierre Gautier, Head of Japanese Collections at the Musée Cernuschi, on Wednesday, October 22, from 12 PM to 1 PM, in the conference room of the Monnaie de Paris, as part of the Asia Now talk series.
“One must also speak of the movement inherent in these ceramics. Some seem to arise from a telluric surge captured mid-flight, hardened and frozen by fire. But what is pottery if not molten earth? Yoshimi Futamura seizes this movement in its momentum and freezes it, for our greatest admiration.”





