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Meting with Mayumi Suzuki about the exhibition The Restoration Will / The Place To Belong

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The exhibition at the City Gallery Arsenał will showcase the work of Mayumi Suzuki, who wants to share her personal tragedy. It will contain the archives and visual traces left in the ruins of her family home after 2011 tsunami. In her photographic book called The Restoration Will she combines archival works, her father's portfolio, elements of a destroyed, family photographic studio and contemporary photographs. The cycle is a commemoration of her lost loved ones. In The Place to Belong series, presented in Poznań for the first time, the artist expands her exploration of archives and traces of the catastrophe.

The Restoration Will / The Place to Belong, Mayumi Suzuki - grafika artykułu
The Restoration Will / The Place to Belong, Mayumi Suzuki

Mayumi was born in 1977 and raised in a family who ran a photo studio founded by her grandfather in 1930 in the city of Onagawa. She studied at Nihon University and now works in Tokyo as a visual storyteller. Mayumi won many international awards. This year her book was called the best International Photography Book of the Year by PHOTO ESPANA.

Date: November 16th (Friday) 5:15 p.m.

Place: Auditorium, University of The Arts Poznań, building A,

Address: Poznań, Al. Marcinkowskiego 29

Event organizer: Chair of Photography at the University of The Arts Poznań

The meeting will be held in English.

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