Installation view of Sébastien Raizer "HACHIMONJIYA LIVING SOULS"
French novelist Sébastien Raizer exhibits his latest work based on photography and writing. In October 2020, Raizer held an exhibition at Bar Hachimonjiya; he was joined by Malaysian dance artist Lim Pei Ern who danced fervently throughout the venue. In his exhibition at Delta Gallery, Raizer exhibits photographs taken during the performance and covers the walls of the exhibition space in words. During the exhibition period, the words will be created and changed little by little through interactions with the visitors.
Living tools connected to dead tools
neurotic panic algorithmic mimic
in the black iron asylum of
NOWHERE
NOW HERE:
Humans are soul-linked and dance many languages in an ever floating world, all of them futuresgenerators, free and unlimited, equally bright and dark, saving and dangerous — art being the impossible momentum of their equinoxes.
I felt this was also the silent bet that Pei Ern made when she discovered Hachimonjiya and said:
“I SHALL DANCE HERE!”
I immediately trusted her ability to feel, read and embody the living souls of the place, their memories, histories and emotions.
And Kai Fusayoshi, writer, photographer and owner of Hachimonjiya, approved the project unhesitatingly.
As an artist, Pei Ern is a link between various territories of languages and life.
I tried to catch her talks and tales and illuminations the best way I understood them.
Sébastien Raizer, October 2020, Kyoto.
