Duo Au_Passage with Karine Arabian & Franck Blais

During their residency in 2023, Karine Arabian & Franck Blais (JN.Mellor Club) immersed themselves in a Japan steeped in ceremonies and rituals, where beliefs, Shintoism, and ancestral traditions remain deeply rooted. Fascinated by the instruments and tools dedicated to these rites, they created a series of objects/sculptures, each piece seeming to originate from an ancient and obscure ritual. They gathered abandoned objects and fragments from various locations across Kyoto, assembling them and wrapping them in Japanese leather crafted using millennia-old tanning techniques. Each intervention reflects a meticulous approach, as if repairing, caring for, and enveloping, giving rise to new objects whose forms are both mysterious and familiar.
JN.Mellor Club presents the complete piece for the first time, composed of 26 tools/sculptures.