Hariban Award 2020 Grand Prize Exhibition
Maude Arsenault
Entangled 1&2
Benrido is pleased to present the solo-exhibition by the Hariban Award 2020 Grand Prize Winner Maude Arsenault Entangled 1 & 2.
Opening on September 21, 2021, at MEDIA SHOP Gallery in Kyoto, the show will present the winning works of Maude Arsenault, the 7th Grand Prize Winner of the annual International Collotype Photography Competition HARIBAN AWARD.
Maude Arsenault is a photographer and artist in addition to being the mother of three children. After years spent living in Sydney, Paris and NYC as a fashion photographer she is now currently living in her hometown of Montreal, Canada. Maude’s photography work invests the themes of construction of female identity, private spaces, domesticity and intimacy through a documentary, collage and portraiture approach.
Maude reflects on the current social condition of female identity, a state that compels us to question the foundations to which young women today refer in the way they form and shape. As an artist and a mother, and the way social structures and history are imposing on us certain schemas and blameworthiness, Maude questions how the traditional patriarchy models implies on girls and women, ideals that still today in 2020, can results in disappointment, lack of confidence and mental health issues. Maude works in digital, analog and in polaroid both in colour and black and white.
The exhibition is part of this year’s KG+ Kyotographie Satellite Event Program.
COVID 19 Measures
•Please wear a mask inside the venue.
•Please sanitize your hands upon entry.
•If you are experiencing cold-like symptoms such as a fever or are feeling unwell, or have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, please refrain from visiting the exhibition.
•Please keep your distance, approximately 2m from other visitors when viewing.
•Please lower your voice.
September 21 – October 17, 2021
Venue
MEDIA SHOP VOX Building 1F, 44 Daikoku-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
Hours
12:00 – 20:00
Free entry
KG+ Kyotographie Satellite Event
Installation view, Maude Arsenault: Entangled 1&2, Hariban Award Exhibition, MEDIA SHOP, Kyoto, 2021
“My creative and photographic work invests the themes of female representation, private space, domesticity and intimacy from an intimate photographic approach that oscillates between still life, portrait and documentary images. Through my practice, I try to reflect on the current social condition of female identity, a state that leads me to question the foundations on which women refer in the way they form and shape.”
— Maude Arsenault in conversation with Benrido
Read the full interview here
Installation view, Maude Arsenault: Entangled 1&2, Hariban Award Exhibition, MEDIA SHOP, Kyoto, 2021
Filmed and edited by Maude Arsenault, this video presents an introduction to her practice and creative space located in Montreal’s Mile End, Canada
“In recent years I have been particularly interested in the materiality of the image. I thus explore from the photographic image, printing on textiles and experimental papers, sculpture, collage and installation. My researches examine from my feminine cis-gender point of view, the body as a space and the spaces of the body, from a perspective of empowerment for women.”
— Maude Arsenault in conversation with Benrido
Read the full interview here
Installation view, Maude Arsenault: Entangled 1&2, Hariban Award Exhibition, MEDIA SHOP, Kyoto, 2021
“It is important for me to bring together the ancient and traditional spirit of the collotype to my work but also to not compromise the contemporary ideas I identify with. I believe in looking forward by learning from the past, I am excited by how the collotype printing approach will give me an incredible opportunity to experience and push my work in different and new exciting perspectives.”
— Maude Arsenault in conversation with Benrido
Read the full interview here
In 2020, the Hariban Award adjusted its programming to find ways to operate within our new environment. Although ongoing travel restrictions put a hold on Maude Arsenault’s physical residency, we feel very fortunate to have been able to carry out the production of Arsenault’s collotype prints remotely, along with the planning of this exhibition.
Communicating across time zones and sending multiple test prints across continents, the production of Arsenault’s collotype prints moved online. The studio remained able to operate under new guidelines and together, Master Printer Osamu Yamamoto, Arsenault and the Hariban Award team worked to understand how a creative experience and collaboration, such as one offered by the Hariban Award, could be realised. Whilst the virtual space and physical distancing brought new challenges, the experience also gave opportunities to innovate and more importantly, strengthened the value of care work in building relationships for creativity to flourish.
We would like to thank Maude Arsenault for her kindness, generosity and time throughout her remote residency held between Montreal and Kyoto, and for sharing her ideas and world with us. To commemorate the 2020 Hariban Award, a special print has been made unique only to Maude Arsenault’s residency from her work titled “Home trap”. Printed in four parts, this piece stands as the largest collotype artwork made for the Hariban Award and can be experienced within this exhibition. A special reiteration of Arsenault’s exhibition will take place at Benrido Collotype Atelier in the Spring of 2022, where we look forward to hosting Maude in Kyoto, to share time and to work together on a special collaboration.
Installation view, Maude Arsenault: Entangled 1&2, Hariban Award Exhibition, MEDIA SHOP, Kyoto, 2021
Detail of Home Trap
Below are a selection of images taking during the production of Arsenault’s collotype prints and the planning and preparation for her solo exhibition as part of the 2021 KG+ Kyotographie Satellite Event.
Detail of production notes held by printing assistant Satake-san from the making of Maude Arsenault’s collotype prints
Online meeting with Maude Arsenault with Master Printer Osamu Yamamoto, Mako Mizobuchi and Kotaro Sei
Video of Master Printer Osamu Yamamoto making Maude Arsenault’s collotype prints.
Master Printer Osamu Yamamoto, printing assistant Satake-san and Kotaro Sei framing Maude Arsenault’s large scale collotype print Home trap
Video time-lapse of the preparation of Maude Arsenault’s large scale collotype print Home trap
Maude Arsenault and Hariban Team during an online meeting
Experience Maude Arsenault’s solo exhibition through the exhibition walkthrough below
Video of, Maude Arsenault: Entangled 1&2, Hariban Award Exhibition, MEDIA SHOP, Kyoto, 2021
