August 28 – September 3, 2023
The Japanese touring exhibition of “Paper Sanctuary” held in London.
The inaugural exhibition took place at the Simose Museum, which opened in 2023.
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.
Designer: Shigeru Ban
Curator: Clare Farrow Studio
Poetry, Essay and Translation: Svetlana Lavochkina
Photography: Vincent Haiges
Music: Valentin Silvestrov, Bagatellen und Serenaden, ECM Records
