msb gallery is pleased to present “I am here”, an exhibition by PAPER BRUT. 

 

Based in Niigata, they create paper and objects from plants and bark found surrounding them.

They make a wide range of works, and handle all processes from cultivating raw materials to designing.

 

PAPER “BRUT”, which means "raw” paper in French, creates forms that take advantage of the characteristics of natural plants in homage to traditional techniques.

 

This exhibition showcases a group of works created using pigments extracted from plants, a new approach they have been exploring in recent years.

 

We hope you will feel the power of plants and enjoy a dialogue with them through their works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Production Process

It begins by overlapping memories of everyday life with the time spent with the paper mulberry tree that the artists cultivate.

The works, woven like a diary, capture the transience and beauty hidden in familiar objects, quietly revealing the value of ordinary life.

Further developing into the act of extracting colors from plants, this shift represents a transition from treating the world as a subject to depict to a stage where the body is involved in the material creation process.

It progresses in conjunction with bodily movements responding to environmental changes such as light, humidity, and scent, gently synchronizing with the rhythm of nature. This reaction is of the same nature as the natural movements of insects moving toward flowers and plants reaching toward light.

These bodily responses indicate that the rhythm of the world is inscribed in the artist's bodily schema.

The paper and colors that emerge from this are traces of the moment when the world and the body intersect, and the works emerge as a space where the boundaries between the two unravel.

 

PAPER BRUT