On the occasion of Shigeru’s receiving the Enku Award, an exhibition of the winners was held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu.
The Japanese touring exhibition of “Paper Sanctuary” held in London. Ban presented the Paper Partition System (PPS), a partition system which transforms any space into a shelter for privacy, dignity and hope, ‘Paper Sanctuary’ marks a collaboration with Ukrainian-born poet, novelist and literary translator Svetlana Lavochkina, Berlin photographer Vincent Haiges, and Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, now a war refugee in Berlin himself. With a collection of Ukrainian poems and “memories of home”. Donations collected at the event will be used to build temporary housing in Ukraine.
Embroideries by Tomoko Konoike, another Enku Award winner, were also displayed in places in harmony with the poems.
Previous Touring Exhibitions “Paper Sanctuary”
London : June 1st -25th, 2023
Hiroshima (SIMOSE) : August 28th – September 3rd, 2023
Kobe (Kobe City Hall) : October 17th- 30th, 2023
Tokyo (Museum Tower Kyobashi) : November 2nd-30th, 2023
Oita (Oita Prefectural Art Museum) : January 13th – February 4th, 2024
Niigata (MUJI Naoetsu) : February 13th – February 29th, 2024
Aichi（Toyota City Museum） : April 26, 2024 – May 26, 2024
Tokyo（Shibaura Institute of Technology） : September 20, 2024 – October 20, 2024
