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Joana Choumali "Alba’hian"
Ryosokuin Zen Temple
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Joana Choumali
Born in 1974, Joana Choumali is a visual artist / photographer based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She studied graphic arts in Casablanca (Morocco) and worked as an art director in an advertising agency before embarking on her photography career. She works mainly in conceptual portraiture, mixed media, and documentary photography. Much of her work focuses on Africa, and what she has learned about its myriad cultures. Her major awards include the CapPrize Award (2014) and the Emerging Photographer LensCulture Award (2014). In 2019, she became the first African to win the 8th Prix Pictet for her series Ça va aller (It will be ok) on the theme of ‘Hope.’ Her book Haabre, The Last Generation, was published in Johannesburg in 2016. In 2020, she was named a Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University.
In her most recent works, Choumali embroiders directly on photographic images, completing the creative act with a slow and meditative gesture. For Kyotographie 2023, two new works will be shown: the ongoing series of embroidered pictures Alba’hian will be exhibited in Ryosokuin Zen Temple, and portraits of Masugata Shopping Arcade and Belleville Market in the Treichville neighborhood of Abidjan will be displayed together in Masugata Shopping Arcade, where Kyotographie has a permanent space.
Venue: Ryosokuin Zen Temple
In her most recent works, Choumali embroiders directly on photographic images, completing the creative act with a slow and meditative gesture. For Kyotographie 2023, two new works will be shown: the ongoing series of embroidered pictures Alba’hian will be exhibited in Ryosokuin Zen Temple, and portraits of Masugata Shopping Arcade and Belleville Market in the Treichville neighborhood of Abidjan will be displayed together in Masugata Shopping Arcade, where Kyotographie has a permanent space.
Venue: Ryosokuin Zen Temple
Schedule | Apr 15 (Sat) 2023-May 14 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥1000, Students ¥800 | ||||
| Website | https://www.kyotographie.jp/en/programs/2023/joana-choumali-2/ | ||||
| Venue | Ryosokuin Zen Temple https://ryosokuin.com/ | ||||
| Location | 591 Komatsu-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 605-0811 | ||||
| Access | 7 minute walk from exit 1 at Gion-shijo Station on the Keihan line, 10 minute walk from exit 1B at Kyoto-kawaramachi Station on the Hankyu line. | ||||
| Related images | Click on the image to enlarge it |
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