Please join Eriko Koga and Pascal Beausse, the exhibition curator and Head of Photographic Collections at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) in an intimate discussion about Eriko’s work, their philosophy on photography and the trajectory of Eriko’s photographic practice. (Booking required).
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Eriko Koga
Freelance photographer and Kyoto resident Eriko Koga, born 1980 in Fukuoka, studied French Literature at Sophia University, Tokyo in 2003. Her work has earned numerous honors including being selected by the Guardian Garden Gallery’s Photo Documentary ‘Nippon’ 2004, the Photo City Sagamihara Newcomer Incentive Prize in 2012, a Nikkei National Geographic Photo Excellence Award in 2014, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Social Security Council’s Child Welfare Culture Special Recognition in 2015, as well as last year’s KG+ Award by Grand Marble Grand Prix. Her publications include Asakusa Zenzai (Seigensha: 2011) and Issan (AkaAka: 2015).
Pascal Beausse
An Art Critic and a Curator, Pascal Beausse is currently the Head of Photographic Collections at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) in Paris. He is also Guest Professor at the Geneva University of Arts and Design (HEAD). He is a member of the editorial committee of the art journal Critique d’art, and contributed to magazines such as Art Press, Blocnotes and Flash Art. He has published essays, articles, interviews and catalogues on the work of Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, Teresa Margolles, Allan Sekula, Bruno Serralongue, Cécile Hartmann and Wang Du, among others. Recent exhibitions curated by Pascal Beausse include La Cabane (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2006); Welcome to Heterotopia!! (Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Tokamachi, 2006); Void Has No Exit (Creative Union, Hiroshima, 2008); Numero Tres (La Virreina – centre de la imatge, Barcelona, 2012), Documents pour une information alternative (Rencontres d’Arles, 2012), Knowledge is Power (PhotoEspaña, Madrid, 2013), The Secret Sea (Onomichi City Museum of Art, Onomichi, 2013), among others. Pascal Beausse was a resident at Villa Kujoyama in 2007.
[Fee]
Free
[Language]
French with Japanese translation
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In Conversation: Eriko Koga & Pascal Beausse