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Home_N Gallery 2012
Home_N Gallery is a private homely gallery as well a house and atelier of Nishio Workshop Nairobi, and open as exhibition space to all sorts of people. We will regularly have a unique series of temporary exhibitions and workshop programmes focused on something interesting around Nairobi. It will be reported on our blog of this website on a real-time basis.
In this exhibition KANGAERU, we will present a series of works produced by clipping and re-composing different patterns of Kanga, very traditional cloth from the East African region. The title KANGAERU means "contemplating" or "transforming Kanga" in the Japanese language. By imagining Kanga's colorful and fabulous patterns as materials for painting, we can find new value and meaning in such familiar and common objects. There is also a workshop space where you can experience production process of KANGAERU during the exhibition period.
Exhibition Period: Monday 20 February ～ Sunday 25 March 2012
・Organizer: Nishio Workshop Nairobi
In this exhibition ANA MDOMO, we will exhibit a lot of photographs of various views seen through windows of each house around Nairobi. At the same time, many photographs taken under the same theme around Japan will be collected on the Internet, and exhibited in the gallery to open the window linking Nairobi to Japan. The exhibition is scheduled to travel around 5 places such as restaurant and gallery, from the Central Business District to the north, south, east and west different residential areas in Nairobi. To add lots of windows inside a closed space for opening into another world would awake your imagination to live close together in the contemporary urban society where people with different cultural and social backgrounds intermingle.
Exhibition Period: Monday 9 January ～ Sunday 12 February 2012
- Organizer: Nishio Workshop Nairobi
- In Association with: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Nairobi Research Station
In the pre- open exhibition MAP PAMOJA, our visitors will be mapping their each favorite place on the map of Nairobi covering the whole wall of the gallery. The map covered with others' personal and memorial places would hopefully renew the image of Nairobi in your mind. During the period, photos and movies of the Nishio's past art works are also on display.
Exhibition Period: Monday 14 November ～ Sunday 18 December 2011
- Organizer: Nishio Workshop Nairobi
