Young designers Abraham Guardian and Mamuro Oki, who make up independent local brand Ha.Mu will be exhibiting in Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
According to their site, the exhibition titled “City Prince/sses” is “presented as an imaginary, multiple and complex city, without borders, messy, staggering and creative: an unpredictable laboratory, which is always in motion and being (re)constructed.”
The show features fifty artists composed of visual artists, creators, fashion designers, experimenters, tattooists, and musicians from different megacities across the globe, namely, Dhaka, Lagos, Manila, Mexico City, and Tehran.
The shifting nature of these megacities in terms of their cultural, political, and social aspects—and the way these artists respond to them— is a key theme which will be tackled in the exhibit. “Megacities are undergoing a chaotic expansion, mingling transfers of capital with technological connexions in financial centres, generating urban margins with numerous inequalities,“ a statement by the exhibition reads. “The artists which then emerge are thus the flâneurs of the 21st century, the hackers of our responses to an urban environment which is often functional and standardized.”
Curated by Hugo Vitrani with his associate, Fabien Danesi, and conceptualised by the architect Olivier Goethals, It will moreover feature “Raw and head-spinning hangings, mysterious landscapes, luminous or opaque zones, backrooms, and traps.”
Certainly sounds like an interesting show to be a part of. Congrats, Ha.Mu!
Photo courtesy of Ha.Mu’s Instagram account
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